Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789004476332
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9789004107335
Series Statement:
International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology 64
Content:
The 9 contributors to this volume are Africanists whose comprehension of the political "vernacular" of Africa helped to sharpen their analyses of a continent on the eve of a new millennium and in the aftermath of the Cold War. The debate over the most relevant political models for African countries has till recently been conducted against a backdrop of the competing claims of socialism and capitalism. Attempts to consolidate democracy and constitutional have taken place in the shadow of intractable economic problems, prompting the question of whether democracy can survive in Africa without economic prosperity. The papers published here address many of these problems, as well as dealing with the questions of ethnicity, leadership, the power of the military, and prodemocracy movements within African nation states
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Preliminary Material
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Introduction
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Incomplete Metamorphic Democracy as a Conceptual Framework in the Analysis of African Politics
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Democracy and Economic Reforms
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Effective Constitutional Discourse as an Important First Step to Democratization in Africa
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The 1992 Multiparty Elections in Cameroon
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The Impact of Leadership Instability on Democratic Process in Nigeria
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The Military as an Obstacle to the Democratization Enterprise
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Democratization and Peace in Africa
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Critical Notes on Political Liberalization in Africa
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On the Threshold of Another False Start?
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Contributors
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Index
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Errata
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Democracy and Democratization in Africa : Towards the 21st Century Leiden : Brill, 1996 ISBN 9789004107335
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004476332
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