Liberia's run-up to 2017: continuity and change in a long history of electoral politics. Issue 152 (3rd April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pailey, Robtel Neajai; Harris, David
• Is Part Of: Review of African political economy. Volume 44:Issue 152(2017)
• Page Start: 322
• Page End: 335
• Publication Date: 2017-04-03
• Subjects: Africa -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Africa -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 330.96
• DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2017.1318361
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0305-6244

Abstract

SUMMARY: 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.