Title Post-Election Violence in Africa : the impact of judicial independence / Meshack B. Simati

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (262 pages) Series African governance African governance. Summary This book explores the effect of the judiciary on the incidence of post-election violence by political actors across Africa and within African countries. It examines how variation in judicial independence can constrain or incentivize election violence among democratizing states. Using case studies and cross-national analysis, the book shows that variation in levels of judicial independence from a non-independent judiciary to a quasi-independent judiciary or from a fully independent judiciary to quasi-independent judiciary increases the likelihood of strategic use of post-election violence by non-state actors. However, the likelihood of post-election violence is significantly reduced in non-independent judiciaries or once countries' judiciaries become fully independent. The author makes the theoretical argument that, within unconsolidated states, non-state actors that view the judiciary as semi-independent are more likely to engage in post-election violence with the purpose of creating political and professional uncertainty in order to influence assertive behaviour from judges in disputed elections. Consequently, the book argues that semi-independent judiciaries or judiciaries that are neither fully controlled by the incumbent nor fully independent from the incumbent can help explain post-election violence among unconsolidated states, all else being equal. This book will be of interest to scholars of election violence, democratic politics, law and politics and African politics Notes Meshack B. Simati is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Global Studies at California State University, San Marcos, USA Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2020) Subject Judicial independence -- Africa Political violence -- Africa Elections -- Africa POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch. Elections Judicial independence Political violence Politics and government SUBJECT South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003600 Subject Africa South Africa Form Electronic book ISBN 1000035859 9780429298783 0429298781 9781000035766 100003576X 9781000035674 1000035670 9781000035858

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