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\"Nick<\/a>This Geographical Magazine op-ed<\/a> by ARI senior researcher Nick Branson<\/a> explores the background to the upcoming Tanzanian constitutional referendum as a parallel to the West Lothian Question in the UK. The article draws on ARI’s most recent Briefing Note, <\/em>“Party Rules: Consolidating power through constitutional reform in Tanzania.<\/a>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Geographical Magazine op-ed by ARI senior researcher Nick Branson explores the background to the upcoming Tanzanian constitutional referendum as a parallel to the West Lothian Question in the UK. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1439,221,1294,1434,208,1436,1438,1349,1288,1440,1309,964,1287,1435,1433,27,927,1311,1437,1304,203,1289,1432,1292],"class_list":["post-7303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ari-in-the-news","tag-abeid-karume","tag-africa-research-institute","tag-ccm","tag-cold-war","tag-constitution","tag-geographical-magazine","tag-indyref","tag-jakaya-kikwete","tag-julius-nyerere","tag-karume","tag-katiba","tag-nick-branson","tag-nyerere","tag-pan-africanism","tag-pemba","tag-politics-in-publications","tag-president-kikwete","tag-referendum","tag-scotland","tag-tanganyika","tag-tanzania","tag-warioba","tag-west-lothian-question","tag-zanzibar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\nGeographical Magazine, 23 March 2015 - 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