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African insights 2025: Citizen engagement, citizen power: Africans claim the promise of democracy
Accra: Afrobarometer (2025), 45 pp.
"Afrobarometer public-attitude surveys have been tracking citizen engagement on the continent for 25 years. This report, the second in an annual series on high-priority topics, draws on data spanning the past decade, including the latest round of nationally representative surveys in 39 countries, r
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Discourses on Electoral Law Reform in Tanzania’s Social Media: A Case of Two Selected Twitter(X) Accounts, JamiiForums and Maria Sarungi
Nyegezi-Malimbe: St Augustine University of Tanzania, Master Thesis (2024), vii, v, 185 pp.
"This research examines the political discourse surrounding electoral law and constitutional reforms in Tanzania, utilizing Jürgen Habermas's Public Sphere Theory as the theoretical lens. Employing critical discourse analysis (CDA), the study analyzes social media discussions, particularly on Twitt
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Public Trust in Elections: The Role of Media Freedom and Election Management Autonomy
Accra: Afrobarometer (2017), 24 pp.
"Very few cross-national studies have examined the consequences of electoral manipulation, including the manipulation of election administration and the media, on citizens’ trust in elections. This paper addresses this gap by exploring how autonomy of election management bodies (EMBs) and media fr
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Owning the issues of crime and immigration: The relation between immigration and crime news and anti-immigrant voting in 11 countries
Electoral Studies, volume 38 (2015), pp. 59-69
"It is still not well understood how the media affect anti-immigrant party voting. In this paper, we argue and demonstrate empirically that mere exposure to immigration- and crime-related news is positively related to the likelihood that a voter casts a vote for an anti-immigrant party. On the basis
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Using Social Media to Gauge Iranian Public Opinion and Mood After the 2009 Election
Santa Monica, Calif. et al.: RAND Corporation (2012), xxi, 86 pp.
"This report presents an analysis of Iranian public opinion and mood as expressed over Twitter in the nine months following the election. The research represents an initial case study of a novel methodology developed to analyze politically oriented social media content. In addition to policy-relevan
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Erros nas pesquisas eleitorais e de opinião
Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record (2009), 190 pp.
Media, Democracy and Renewal in Southern Africa
Colorado Springs: International Academic Publishers (2001), 309 pp.
