Tanzania's Missing Opposition
"Tanzania's Missing Opposition," by CDACS Executive Director Barak Hoffman and M.A. in Democracy and Governance Candidate Lindsay Robinson, will be published in the Journal of Democracy. The paper examines why opposition parties in Tanzania remain chronically weak a decade and a half after the country's democratic transition. Hoffman and Robinson argue that while part of the absence of a vigorous political opposition results from a combination of little demand for it and its uninspiring leadership, the main reason opposition parties remain weak is because the ruling party suppresses those who contest its near-monopoly of power, including resorting to coercion when other methods of containing the opposition fail.
