Witnessing Africa’s Woes and Hopes

The decision by Uganda’s leaders to abandon the country’s “movement” system and adopt multiparty pluralism creates a significant opportunity for democratic progress.

Often recommended as a means of ending intractable civil wars, power-sharing may in fact be least likely to work when it is most needed.

Staffan Lindberg replies to Matthijs Bogaards’s critique, finding the latter’s methodology problematic and arguing that the evidence for association between repeated elections and democratization remains strong.