Political Parties in Africa: Challenges for Sustained Multiparty

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About the Authors Per Nordlund is as a Senior Programme Officer at International IDEA, working with IDEA’s Programme on Research and Dialogue with Political Parties. Prior to joining IDEA in 2004, he was a Senior Democracy and Human Rights Advisor at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and was stationed in Zimbabwe in 2000-2004 as Sida’s Regional Advisor for Democratic Governance in Southern Africa. Per Nordlund has worked and carried out research in Africa since 1990, and he holds a PhD from the Department of Government at Uppsala University, Sweden: his thesis is published as Organising the Political Agora: Domination and Democratisation in Zambia and Zimbabwe (Uppsala University: 1996). He has also been a research associate of the University of Zimbabwe, the University of Zambia and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Mohamed Salih is Professor of Politics of Development at both the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, and the Department of Political Science, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. His latest publications include African Parliaments between Government and Governance (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2005) and African Political Parties: Evolution, Institutionalization and Governance (London: Pluto Press, 2003). 0
About International IDEA What is International IDEA? The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance—International IDEA— is an intergovernmental organization that supports sustainable democracy worldwide. Its objective is to strengthen democratic institutions and processes. IDEA acts as a catalyst for democracy building by providing knowledge resources, expertise and a platform for debate on democracy issues. It works together with policy makers, donor governments, UN organizations and agencies, regional organizations and others engaged on the field of democracy building. What does International IDEA do? Democracy building is complex and touches on many areas including constitutions, electoral systems, political parties, legislative arrangements, the judiciary, central and local government, formal and traditional government structures. International IDEA is engaged with all of these issues and offers to those in the process of democratization: • knowledge resources, in the form of handbooks, databases, websites and expert networks; • policy proposals to provoke debate and action on democracy issues; and • assistance to democratic reforms in response to specific national requests. Areas of work IDEA’s notable areas of expertise are: • Constitution-building processes. A constitutional process can lay the foundations for peace and development, or plant seeds of conflict. International IDEA is able to provide knowledge and make policy proposals for constitution building that is genuinely nationally owned, is sensitive to gender and conflict-prevention dimensions, and responds effectively to national priorities. • Electoral processes. The design and management of elections has a strong impact on the wider political system. International IDEA seeks to ensure the professional management and independence of elections, adapt electoral systems, and build public confidence in the electoral process. • Political parties. Political parties form the essential link between voters and the government. Yet polls taken across the world show that political parties enjoy a low level of confidence. International IDEA analyses the functioning of political parties, the public funding of political parties, their management and relations with the public. • Democracy and gender. International IDEA recognizes that if democracies are to be truly democratic, then women—who make up over half of the world’s population—must be represented on equal terms with men. International IDEA develops comparative resources and tools designed to advance the participation and representation of women in political life. • Democracy assessments. Democratization is a national process. IDEA’s State of Democracy methodology allows people to assess their own democracy instead of relying on externally produced indicators or rankings of democracies. Where does International IDEA work? International IDEA works worldwide. It is based in Stockholm, Sweden, and has offices in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
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