Danielle Resnick

Danielle Resnick is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a nonresident fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. She is the author of Urban Poverty and Party Populism in African Democracies (2014).

January 2022, Volume 33, Issue 1

How Zambia’s Opposition Won

Halting a decade of democratic backsliding, Haikainde Hichilema defeated an increasingly iron-fisted incumbent president. How did he do it and can others learn from his example?