Professor Justin Willis' Outputs (2)

From peace campaigns to peaceocracy: elections, order and authority in Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Lynch, G., Cheeseman, N., & Willis, J. (2019). From peace campaigns to peaceocracy: elections, order and authority in Africa. African Affairs, 118(473), 603-627. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adz019

Research on Kenya’s 2013 elections has suggested that a “peace narrative” was deliberately promoted by an establishment elite to delegitimize protest and justify the use of excessive force. It has also tended to see the Kenyan case as exceptional and... Read More about From peace campaigns to peaceocracy: elections, order and authority in Africa.

Kenya's 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual? (2019)
Journal Article
Cheeseman, N., Lynch, G., Kanyinga, K., Ruteere, M., & Willis, J. (2019). Kenya's 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual?. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 13(2), 215-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2019.1594072

This article asks what Kenya’s 2017 general elections tell us about the capacity of a new constitution to reduce the stakes of political competition and prospects of political instability. Three constitutional changes are particularly important: the... Read More about Kenya's 2017 elections: winner-takes-all politics as usual?.