Constitutional Engineering in Southern Africa

Despite pre-election fears, the victory of the opposition NPP over the ruling NDC in Ghana’s December 2016 elections became the prologue to a peaceful transfer of power. This outcome suggests that the…

Juan Linz’s 1990 critique of presidentialism in these pages was based largely on the Latin American experience. In the last few years, however, four new Asian democracies have encountered presidential…

After the ethnic violence that marred its 2007 presidential election, Kenya must reform its institutions to better represent its diverse polity.