Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o has a Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs, and is currently Associate Professor and Chair, Department of International Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis. He previously taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Kenyatta University, Kenya, University of Nairobi, Kenya and Northeastern University, Boston. His publications include Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa (2013); The African Search for Stable Forms of Statehood (2008); and Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy (2007).

• Introduction. 1. Emergence of Authoritarianism 2. The Forces of Democratization 3. The Centrality of Civil Society 4. The Role of Ethnicity 5. The Primacy of Electoral System Design 6. Rational Politics and Democratization 7. Prospects for Democratic Consolidation

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Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o has a Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs, and is currently Associate Professor and Chair, Department of International Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis. He previously taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Kenyatta University, Kenya, University of Nairobi, Kenya and Northeastern University, Boston. His publications include Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa (2013); The African Search for Stable Forms of Statehood (2008); and Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy (2007).

• Introduction. 1. Emergence of Authoritarianism 2. The Forces of Democratization 3. The Centrality of Civil Society 4. The Role of Ethnicity 5. The Primacy of Electoral System Design 6. Rational Politics and Democratization 7. Prospects for Democratic Consolidation

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Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o has a Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs, and is currently Associate Professor and Chair, Department of International Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis. He previously taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Kenyatta University, Kenya, University of Nairobi, Kenya and Northeastern University, Boston. His publications include Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa (2013); The African Search for Stable Forms of Statehood (2008); and Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy (2007).

• Introduction. 1. Emergence of Authoritarianism 2. The Forces of Democratization 3. The Centrality of Civil Society 4. The Role of Ethnicity 5. The Primacy of Electoral System Design 6. Rational Politics and Democratization 7. Prospects for Democratic Consolidation

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