Democratization in Africa: challenges and prospects
by Crawford, Gordon Lynch, Gabrielle
It is two decades since the 'third wave' of democratisation began to roll across sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s. This book provides a very timely investigation into the progress and setbacks over that period, the challenges that remain and the prospects for future democratisation in Africa.
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- Full title :Democratization in Africa : challenges and prospects / edited by Gordon Crawford and Gabrielle Lynch.
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It is two decades since the 'third wave' of democratisation began to roll across sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s. This book provides a very timely investigation into the progress and setbacks over that period, the challenges that remain and the prospects for future democratisation in Africa.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:v, 293 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780415508322, 0415508320
- oclc:ocn775027985
- LC Classification:JQ1879.A15
- Dewey Decimal:320.96
Table of Contents
Democratization in Africa 1990-2010 : an assessment / Gabrielle Lynch and Gordon Crawford -- The abrogation of the electorate : an emergent African phenomenon / Wale Adebamvi and Ebenezer Obadare -- The internal dynamics of power-sharing in Africa / Nic Cheeseman -- Taking back our demooracy? The trials and travails of Nigerian elections since 1999 / Cyril Obi -- An autocrat's toolkit : adaptation and manipulation in 'democratic' Cameroon / Ericka A. Albaugh -- Can democratization undermine democracy? Economic and political reform in Uganda / Michael F. Keating -- Democracy promotion in Africa : the institutional context / Oda van Cranenburgh -- Ethnicity and party preference in sub-Saharan Africa / Matthias Basedau, Cera Erdmann, Jann Lay and Alexander Stroh -- Democracy, identity and the politics of exclusion in post-genocide Rwanda : the case of the Batwa / Danielle Beswick -- 'Well, what can you expect?' Donor officials' apologetics for hybrid regimes in Africa / Stephen Brown -- Democratic crisis or crisis of confidence? What local perceptual lenses tell us about Madagascar's 2009 political crisis / Lauren Leigh Hinthorne.
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