This week we will finally get to the question of "democracy" and narrow it to discuss particular institutional variants of democracy, particularly those we're going to see in Mozambique and then down to political parties.

Since I'm posting this so late, I don't expect you to read all of these things before Wednesday, but please try to read them before the trip (or print them out and bring them along--Fun!--and if you print them out on recycled paper, you don't have to bring them back home with you).

• Political Parties in Africa, Challenges for Sustained Multiparty Democracy, http://www.idea.int/publications/pp_africa/upload/Africa_report_inlay_final.pdf (chapters 2-5)
• Giovanni Carbone, Continuidade na renovacao? Ten years of multiparty politics in Mozambique: roots, evolution and stabilisation of the Frelimo-Renamo party system, Mozambique Carbone Mozambique Party System.pdf
• Carrie Manning, Assessing African Party Systems after the Third Wave, Africa Party Systems Manning 2005.pdf

In particular, please work among yourselves to bring--and read--copies of these:

• The (fantastic) report of the Carter Center observation mission in 2004, http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/2218.pdf
• The EU observation mission 2004 final report, http://www.kas.de/upload/auslandshomepages/election-moza_final-report.pdf

And in your spare time, this one isn't bad:

• africa party systems carbone.pdf