PR and Southern Africa: Elections in Agrarian Societies

Issue Date October 1995
Volume 6
Issue 4
Page Numbers 106-16
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About the Author

Joel D. Barkan is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Iowa and nonresident senior associate with the Africa program of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is the author of the 2011 CSIS report “Kenya: Assessing Risks to Stability.”

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