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In our new #scholarly #article, my co-author David Harris and I coin the term ‘electoral exceptionalism as democratic consolidation’ to show how #Liberia’s 2023 #elections can be considered both internally and sub-regionally #exceptional. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
— Robtel Neajai Pailey (@robtelneajai.bsky.social) 7:32 · Jul 15, 2026
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