"Efforts to install democracy in African countries are powerfully shaped by the continent's recent political and institutional legacies. In this book, Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle analyze the significant political reforms undertaken by some 40 out of 47 sub-Saharan countries in...

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Hauptverfasser:	Bratton, Michael (VerfasserIn), Van de Walle, Nicolas 1957- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge [u.a.] Cambridge Univ. Press 2002
Ausgabe:	Transferred to digital print.
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Schlagworte:	Democratisering Democratización - África subsahariana Démocratie - Afrique noire Politieke ontwikkeling Politik Democracy > Africa, Sub-Saharan Demokratisierung Politischer Wandel Africa, Sub-Saharan - Politics and government Afrique noire - Politique et gouvernement - 1960- África subsahariana - Política y gobierno - 1960- Africa, Sub-Saharan > Politics and government > 1960- Subsaharisches Afrika
Zusammenfassung:	"Efforts to install democracy in African countries are powerfully shaped by the continent's recent political and institutional legacies. In this book, Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle analyze the significant political reforms undertaken by some 40 out of 47 sub-Saharan countries in the early 1990s, which included the first competitive elections in a generation. How can this wave of political liberalization be explained? Why did some countries complete a democratic transition, whereas others sustained only limited political reform or suffered authoritarian reversals? What are the long-term prospects for democracy in Africa? In the first study of its kind for sub-Saharan Africa, the authors propose systematic answers to these questions from a cross-national, comparative perspective and in the light of prevailing theories of democratization."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	XVI, 307 S. graph. Darst., Kt.
ISBN:	0521554292 0521556120