Research in political science on traditional authorities has advanced quickly in the past
decade, highlighting the diversity of these institutions and how variation among them affects …

Land transformation issues have been threatening the future of agriculture within the past
decades. However, there are some areas that show their ability in maintaining their …

A growing body of empirical studies has provided important insights into our understanding
of the causes and effects of codified human rights. Yet empirical research has treated human …

This article revisits prominent frameworks for understanding traditional political institutions
which make pessimistic assessments about their compatibility with democracy. Traditional …

Weak state capacity is one of the most important explanations of civil conflict. Yet, current
conceptualizations of state capacity typically focus only on the state while ignoring the …

How does the recognition of collective self-governance rights for indigenous communities
affect national unity and state consolidation? In recent decades, many states have …

Understanding on the law omission seems controversial; some view it only as an
interruption of normal life, and some discern it as an administrative violation. Differences in …

Land Politics examines the struggle to control land in Africa through the lens of land titling in
Zambia and Senegal. Contrary to standard wisdom portraying titling as an inevitable product …

The initiative to recognize and incorporate customary law into the state system is now a
ubiquitous phenomenon. However, how and for what purposes such incorporation has to be …

We argue that polygyny creates a social imbalance where few, economically well-off men
marry many wives and many poor men marry late or never. By definition, polygyny produces …