Presidential and national assembly elections, The Gambia 2006 and 2007

Saine, Abdoulaye

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2007.07.002

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“…Throughout this period, The Gambia's civilianised military government has engaged in extensive repression of alternative voices. The independent media was beset by costly license fees, harassment and the threat of closure throughout the late 1990s and 2000s (Commonwealth ; Saine , ; Senghore ). Civil society has also suffered from suppression; Hughes (: 48) argues that ‘the relative underdevelopment of society and the historic dominance of the state have had a stultifying effect on associational life’.…”

Section: Illustrating Causal Mechanisms: Case Studies Of the Gambia mentioning

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Getting away with foul play? The importance of formal and informal oversight institutions for electoral integrity

Birch

Ham

2017

European J Political Res

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Abstract. Electoral integrity is increasingly being recognised as an important component of democracy, yet scholars still have limited understanding of the circumstances under which elections are most likely to be free, fair and genuine. This article posits that effective oversight institutions play a key role in scrutinising the electoral process and holding those with an interest in the electoral outcome to account. The main insight is that deficiencies in formal electoral management can be effectively compensated for via one or more other institutional checks: an active and independent judiciary; an active and independent media; and/or an active and independent civil society. Flawed elections are most likely to take place when all four checks on electoral conduct fail in key ways. These hypotheses are tested and supported on a cross-national time-series dataset of 1,047 national-level elections held in 156 electoral regimes between 1990 and 2012.

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Getting away with foul play? The importance of formal and informal oversight institutions for electoral integrity

Birch

Ham

2017

European J Political Res

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“…While the 1994 coup d'etat led by Yahya Jammeh certainly marks a major rupture in Gambian political history, it is easy to miss the significant continuity from the Jawara to the Jammeh eras in the enduring centrality of developmentalism. Jammeh's opposition argues that his military background has inclined him towards autocratic rule: heavy media control and low tolerance for dissent, possible polling irregularities, and outright intimidation of his opposition (Jallow ; Saine ; Saine ; cf. Hultin ) .…”

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Developing a Multiethnic Ethos: How Colonial Legacies, National Policies, and Local Histories Converged in a Gambian Village Charter

Thomson

2012

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This examination of local government reform in The Gambia asserts that -contra Mamdani's (1996) generalisations that colonial policies of indirect rule in Africa universally determined that ethnicity is the master code through which ordinary people interact with local manifestations of the state -in some cases colonial administration contributed to more pluralist local politics. Further, I argue that the logics of developmentalism have joined with local models of political legitimacy to generate communities that actively choose to define themselves explicitly as multiethnic entities. My case study focuses on the process conducted in one village of drafting a constitution for its Village Development Committee in anticipation of the Local Government Act of 2000. That a local community took advantage of such a critical juncture to reassert its own moral order is not surprising; however, that this local moral order explicitly recognises and protects ethnic diversity runs counter to dominant narratives about Africa that equate ethnic diversity with conflict.

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Presidential and national assembly elections, The Gambia 2006 and 2007

Cited by 2 publications

References 4 publications

Getting away with foul play? The importance of formal and informal oversight institutions for electoral integrity

Getting away with foul play? The importance of formal and informal oversight institutions for electoral integrity

Developing a Multiethnic Ethos: How Colonial Legacies, National Policies, and Local Histories Converged in a Gambian Village Charter

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