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If successfully orchestrated, the October 2017 elections in Liberia will mark the first time in recent memory when a democratically elected Liberian president – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – will hand over power to a similarly elected head of state. This is very likely to be a close election and our Briefing investigates changes and continuities in the candidates, political parties, electoral processes and the workings of the Liberian state at a watershed moment in a long and shifting democratic history.

More information Original publication

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2017.1318361

Type

Journal article

Publication Date

04/05/2017

Pages

1 - 14