Liberia's run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politics
If successfully orchestrated, the October 2017 elections in Liberia will mark the first time in recent memory when a democratically elected Liberian president – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – will hand over power to a similarly elected head of state. This is very likely to be a close election and our Brief...
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description | If successfully orchestrated, the October 2017 elections in Liberia will mark the first time in recent memory when a democratically elected Liberian president – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – will hand over power to a similarly elected head of state. This is very likely to be a close election and our Briefing investigates changes and continuities in the candidates, political parties, electoral processes and the workings of the Liberian state at a watershed moment in a long and shifting democratic history. |
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spelling | oxford-uuid:fc1c2267-fe02-4ccc-a126-c696f4bb74072022-03-27T13:18:26ZLiberia's run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politicsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:fc1c2267-fe02-4ccc-a126-c696f4bb7407EnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordTaylor and Francis2017Pailey, RHarris, DIf successfully orchestrated, the October 2017 elections in Liberia will mark the first time in recent memory when a democratically elected Liberian president – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – will hand over power to a similarly elected head of state. This is very likely to be a close election and our Briefing investigates changes and continuities in the candidates, political parties, electoral processes and the workings of the Liberian state at a watershed moment in a long and shifting democratic history. |
spellingShingle | Pailey, R Harris, D Liberia's run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politics |
title | Liberia's run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politics |
title_full | Liberia's run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politics |
title_fullStr | Liberia's run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politics |
title_full_unstemmed | Liberia's run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politics |
title_short | Liberia's run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politics |
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