The ‘Menu of Manipulation’ and the 2013 Zimbabwe Elections: Towards Explaining the ‘Technical Knockout’

Abstract

[W]hen all is said and done, the 2013 election are less likely to witness the menu of coercion (certainly not in the first round of presidential elections) and more likely to be characterised by the menu of manipulation. Eldred V Masunungure, July 2013 Thousands of ordinary people walked distances of between 10 and 15 kilometres, some bare-footed, to attend the [MDC-T] rallies without coercion.