‘A valid electoral exercise’?: Uganda’s 1980 elections and the observers’ dilemma’

The presence at Uganda's 1980 general elections of a Commonwealth Observer Group might be seen as a seminal moment. This was the first formal international observation of polls in a sovereign African state and the precursor of multiple similar missions that later became routine. Yet the 1980 mi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cheeseman, N, Willis, J, Lynch, G
Format: Journal article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2017