South Africa’s Future: Symposium—Democratic Party

Africa is a battleground between formal democratic institutions and rule by the will of the "big man." Civil society groups are waging this struggle, and technology is equipping them with…

Since the mid-2000s, democratization in Africa has faltered, in large part due to its elites’ waning commitment to democracy.

After four years of sharing power with the opposition, Zimbabwe’s longtime president Robert Mugabe and his party claimed a huge victory in the 2013 elections. What accounts for the opposition’s…