11:00 - 12:30
Democracy, Participation and Elections
Room: Muirhead – Lecture Theatre – G15
Stream: The Politics of Development in Africa
Chair/s:
Susan Dodsworth
11:00 - 11:15
Th-A50 Politics of Development 6-P-001
The struggle to improve women’s political participation in Kenya under the 2010 Constitution
Christina Kenny
Christina Kenny Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
11:15 - 11:30
Th-A50 Politics of Development 6-P-002
A Hindrance or a Help? The role of ethnicity in opposition pre-electoral coalition-building in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Uganda
Nicole Beardsworth
University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
11:30 - 11:45
Th-A50 Politics of Development 6-P-003
Double Standards: The Verdicts of Western Election Observers in sub-Saharan Africa
Susan Dodsworth
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
11:45 - 12:00
Th-A50 Politics of Development 6-P-004
Support or subvert? Assessing devolution’s effect on central power during Kenya’s 2017 presidential rerun
Hannah Waddilove
University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom