Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-272) and index.

Designing constitutions to reduce domestic conflict / Alan J. Kuperman -- Burundi : institutionalizing ethnicity to bridge the ethnic divide / Filip Reyntjens -- Kenya : gradual pluralization fails to buffer shocks / Gilbert M. Khadiagala -- Nigeria : devolution to mitigate conflict in the Niger Delta / Eghosa E. Osaghae -- Sudan : "successful" constitutional reform spurs localized violence / Karly Kupferberg and Stefan Wolff -- Ghana : the complements of successful centralization : checks, balances, and informal accommodation / Justin Orlando Frosini -- Senegal : the limits of hyper-centralization / William Zartman, Hillary Thomas-Lake, and Arame Tall -- Zimbabwe : the unintended consequences of authoritarian institutions / Andrew Reynolds -- Africa's domestic institutions of integration and accommodation : a new database / Eli Poupko -- Rethinking constitutional reform for democracy and stability / Alan J. Kuperman.