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Trick or treat? The effects of the pre-election climate on the poll in the 2005 Zimbabwe parliamentary elections |
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Reeler, Tony, and Kuda Chitsike; IDASA |
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PDF |
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Cape Town: IDASA |
| Year |
2005-07-01 |
| Pages |
56 |
| Abstract |
While elections are not the only rubric for determining the legitimacy of a state, they have become increasingly important. In Zimbabwe, in the past five years, elections have been elevated to the only constitutive principle for determining legitimacy, aided considerably by the position of the African nations, and South Africa in particular. The rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, human rights and good governance, while generally accepted as additionally crucial to legitimacy and democracy, have been minimised in the Zimbabwe context by African countries, but not by the Western world in general. African countries, frequently led by South Africa, have been responsible not only for validating elections, but also for quashing motions in international meetings that would have been condemnatory of Zimbabwe’s recent record in the observance of human rights and the rule of law.
More documents on the 2005 elections
Read Kubatana's collection of reports, press statements
and other articles on the March 31 2005 General Election
- published on or after March 31 (May 16, 2005)
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Titlepage_Trick_or_treat_.pdf (58 Kb)
Cover_Trick_or_treat.pdf (408 Kb)
www.idasa.org.za |
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Trick_or_treat_20050601.pdf (268 Kb) |
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Zimbabwe |
| Themes |
- Elections
- Governments
- Human rights
- Law
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