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marized above. Chan and Gallagher actually concede its importance in noting that ‘the incentive for an aspirational voter was to join ZANU-PF and benefit from an indigenisation brought from the countryside to the cities’ (p. 36). If Zimbabweans were motivated to vote for ZANU-PF and Mugabe because of the ‘goodies’ they stood to gain, we might not need a complex narrative about which figure seemed more presidential. These quibbles notwithstanding, Why Mugabe Won is a worthy read. It rightly questions simple ‘rigging’ explanations and offers a broad range of factors behind Mugabe’s 2013 electoral success. Chan and Gallagher have produced a thoughtprovoking addition to the growing scholarship on the 2013 elections. Why Mugabe Won will also be of particular interest after Mugabe’s removal. In fact, the book seems to anticipate this fate in suggesting that ‘the 2013 elections were won by Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF, but they were also elections that led to everything he and his party once stood for facing a total eclipse by the time of the next elections in 2018’ (p. 178).