Author: Adrienne LeBas | Journal of Democracy

Adrienne LeBas is assistant professor of government at American University. She is the author of From Protest to Parties: Party-Building and Democratization in Africa (2011).

April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2

A New Twilight in Zimbabwe? The Perils of Power Sharing

Adrienne LeBas

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 stunning electoral decline?