In 1996, the country's first multiparty legislative elections were held.
It can thus be said that we are witnessing the routinisation of multiparty elections.
Section 1 shows that, first, success in the first multiparty election proved to be the key to political dominance in the 1990s.
The position of parties late in the decade is primarily tributary of their performance in the first multiparty election conducted in the early 1990s.
Authorities curtail formal participation in multiparty politics through limitations on freedom of expression and other basic rights.
All in all, coalition governments and multiparty legislatures have less capacity to exercise restraint in government expenditure.
The first category of countries suggests that multiparty competition has brought with it the risk of instability in the 1990s.
If the president is constrained in her appointment powers or her party does not have a legislative majority, she might appoint a multiparty coalition cabinet.
