Beschreibung:
Can elections create democrats? Why and how do formerly armed opposition groups decide to invest in electoral politics or to undermine them? This book argues that the answer lies in the patterns of inter- and intraparty struggles created by participation in repeated elections over time.
FILLS A GAP: As the reviewer points out, there is no other book that looks at the role of parties in post-civil war political development
Introduction: Elections, Democratization and Statebuilding * Parties as Mediators of System Change * Mozambique: The Case of Renamo * Bosnia: The Croatian Democratic Union and the Serbian Democratic Party * El Salvador: The FMLN * Conclusion: Electoralism and the Making of "Democrats"