Book

Sudáfrica. La historia de un éxito democrático en África. Abril de 2026. .https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWR5R4JR

Articles in Indexed Political Science Journals

• The South African Parliament’s Capacity to Constrain the Executive Branch Weakened by a Dominant Party System. PS: Political Science&Politics. January 2025
• Populism and parliamentary opposition parties: The Economic Freedom Fighters Party Behaviour in the South African Parliament. The Journal of Legislative Studies. August 2023
• South African Opposition Party Behaviour Under the National State of Disaster to Respond to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Politikon. April 2021
• Stability and Governability: The Benign Effects of Party Dominance in South Africa. Insight on Africa. December 2020
• Parties’ motivations for electoral reform under the democratic transition in South Africa. Revista Española de Ciencia Política, Vol 50, 2019
• La transformación de los sistemas electorales: la reforma electoral durante la transición democrática en Sudáfrica. Revista Latinoamericana de Política Comparada, Vol.11, Quito: Celaep, 2016

International Congress Presentations

• IV Jornadas de Geopolítica Africana de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid / CIDAF. Ainara Mancebo 2026. La historia de un éxito democrático en el continente africano. Madrid, Spain, puedes ver ponencia desde 01:18:00  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFsIBNlMkq8
• 28th World Congress of Political Science-IPSA. Seoul. Ainara Mancebo. 2025. The Dominant Party System in South Africa has weakened Parliament’s Ability to Effectively Challenge the Executive. 28th World Congress of Political Science-IPSA. Seoul.
• 26th World Congress of Political Science-IPSA. Lisbon. Ainara Mancebo. 2021. New Populism in the South African Parliament.
• 8th European Conference on African Studies-ECAS8. Edinburgh. Ainara Mancebo. 2019. Party dominance System in South Africa. Eighteenth European Conference on African Studies-ECAS8. Edinburgh.
• 25th World Congress of Political Science-IPSA. Brisbane. Ainara Mancebo. 2018. Governability, Stability and Legitimacy: benign effects of party dominance system in the South African emerging democracy to transform the society.
• 5th European Conference on African Studies-ECAS5. Lisbon. Ainara Mancebo. 2013. Transformation of the electoral systems. The case of study of South Africa.

Miscellaneous

Guest of the Speaker on 18th July 2024 for the Opening of the Parliament Address of the Parliament of the Republic of South Africa.

The Loop ECPR’s Political Science Blog publication 2023: «South Africa’s populist EFF stirs up parliamentary affairs» https://theloop.ecpr.eu/south-africas-populist-eff-stirs-up-parliamentary-affairs/

Webinar 28 February 2022. What makes democracy rise, fall and persist? Presentation in Webinar on the Cusp of Coups and Democracy in Africa, organised by Emerging Scholars Research Committee of South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS).

Webinar 22 November 2022. Electoral reform in South Africa. Presentation in a webinar on Reflecting on Electoral Politics in Africa, organised by the Department of Political Science, UNISA.

Webinar 30 June 2021. Respuesta gubernamental a la pandemia del coronavirus en Sudáfrica. Presentación en las Jornadas de la Fundación Ramón Areces y RAICEX.

Interview on RNE January 2021. January. Interview on my research for the Spanish Public National Radio. RNE. https://www.rtve.es/play/audios/punto-de-enlace/punto-enlace-ainara-mancebo-investiga-relacion-entre-covid-sistema-democratico-26-01-21/5772325/