Democratic experiments in Africa: regime transitions in comparative perspective
Between 1989 and 1994, 41 out of 47 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa underwent significant political reform, including in many cases the first competitive elections in a generation. How can this wave of political liberalization be explained? Why did some countries complete a democratic transition, wh...
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Zusammenfassung: | Between 1989 and 1994, 41 out of 47 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa underwent significant political reform, including in many cases the first competitive elections in a generation. How can this wave of political liberalization be explained? Why did some countries complete a democratic transition, while others could not sustain more than limited political reform and others still suffered authoritarian reversals? What are the long term prospects for democracy in Africa? This study constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of democratic transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using an original data set they assembled, the authors demonstrate that economic and international forces often provided the context in which political liberalization occurred, but cannot by themselves explain the observed outcomes. Instead, the authors develop a political-institutional theoretical framework in which the distinctive political traditions of Africa's neopatrimonial states are shown to have powerfully shaped the regime transitions |
Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781139174657 |
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spelling | Bratton, Michael Verfasser (DE-588)170287661 aut Democratic experiments in Africa regime transitions in comparative perspective Michael Bratton, Nicolas van de Walle Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1997 1 online resource (xvi, 307 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Cambridge studies in comparative politics Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) Chapter 1. Approaches to democratization --- Chapter 2. Neopatrimonial rule in Africa --- Chapter 3. Africa's divergent transitions, 1990-94 --- Chapter 4. Explaining political protest --- Chapter 5. Explaining political liberalization --- Chapter 6. Explaining democratic transitions --- Chapter 7. The prospects for democracy ---- Conclusions: Comparative implications Between 1989 and 1994, 41 out of 47 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa underwent significant political reform, including in many cases the first competitive elections in a generation. How can this wave of political liberalization be explained? Why did some countries complete a democratic transition, while others could not sustain more than limited political reform and others still suffered authoritarian reversals? What are the long term prospects for democracy in Africa? This study constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of democratic transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using an original data set they assembled, the authors demonstrate that economic and international forces often provided the context in which political liberalization occurred, but cannot by themselves explain the observed outcomes. Instead, the authors develop a political-institutional theoretical framework in which the distinctive political traditions of Africa's neopatrimonial states are shown to have powerfully shaped the regime transitions Politik Democracy / Africa, Sub-Saharan Politischer Wandel (DE-588)4175047-0 gnd rswk-swf Demokratisierung (DE-588)4124941-0 gnd rswk-swf Africa, Sub-Saharan / Politics and government / 1960- Subsaharisches Afrika (DE-588)4053770-5 gnd rswk-swf Subsaharisches Afrika (DE-588)4053770-5 g Demokratisierung (DE-588)4124941-0 s Politischer Wandel (DE-588)4175047-0 s 1\p DE-604 Van de Walle, Nicolas 1957- Verfasser (DE-588)121714101 aut Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover 978-0-521-55429-9 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback 978-0-521-55612-5 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139174657 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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title_full | Democratic experiments in Africa regime transitions in comparative perspective Michael Bratton, Nicolas van de Walle |
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