Rivalries ahead of Guinea-Bissau’s Election Raise Questions about Stability.”

Recent post at The Conversation. This was a fun big-data meets real politics with a former (Clayton Besaw) and current (Devyn Ecalanti) UCF student.  Drawing on Besaw's work with One Earth Future's CoupCast project, we explore how Guinea-Bissau's political stability has been intimately tied to elections. We hope to develop a larger paper on G-B in the near future. An important lesson here is that although we often think of elections as meaningless in non-democracies, this is far from the truth. They often have dramatic consequences for political stability, and though perhaps unrepresentative of all authoritarian regimes, Guinea-Bissau is only one of many cases illustrating this.