Klappentext: When a military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet deposed the Popular Unity government of socialist President Salvador Allende in 1973, many Chileans expected only a temporary departure from their country's longstanding democratic tradition. Now, more than ten years later,...

In the early 1990s most African countries carried out extensive reforms of their electoral regimes. Adopting a historical institutionalist approach, this paper critically examines the role of institutional path dependence in accounting for the setup of six African electoral regimes. For this...