How Ideas are Replacing Identities in Nigeria’s Electoral Competition
The 2015 defeat of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the polls was Nigeria’s first “electoral turnover,” giving us a new narrative for the decline of dominant parties.…

The 2015 defeat of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) at the polls was Nigeria’s first “electoral turnover,” giving us a new narrative for the decline of dominant parties.…

This blog accompanies the Historical Journal article Voting, Nationhood, and Citizenship in Late-Colonial Africa by Justin Willis, Gabrielle Lynch and Nic Cheeseman.…

In my book, Racial Coalition Building in Local Elections: Elite Cues and Cross-Ethnic Voting, I explore how Black and Latino voters use cues from co-ethnic’s when making candidate choices in local elections.…

It is widely accepted that the manner in which a party campaigns at an election will shape its overall performance. Yet Matthew Goodwin observes that this has failed to translate into detailed research on party campaigning by parties on the radical and extremist fringe.…
A new study has thrown doubt on the ability of the average voter to make an accurate judgement of the performance of their politicians, showing that voter biases appear to be deep-seated and broad.…