Land law reform through registration and titling is often viewed as a technocratic, good-governance step toward building market economies and depoliticizing land transactions. In actual practice, however, land registration and titling programs can be highly partisan, bitterly contentious, and...

While most of the literature on African politics has pointed out the flaws of democracies trapped by patent ethnicity, few studies have explored ways and conditions under which a pluralist democracy can contribute to the consolidation of peaceful political process in ethnically divided...