State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa

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Titel: State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa

Enthält: Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART I Overview
1 State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa
2 The Third Wave of Democratization in Africa: Ambiguities and Contradictions
3 Rethinking Democratic Transitions: Lessons from Eastern and Southern Africa
4 The Reconfiguration of Power in Late Twentieth-Century Africa
PART 2 The Political Economy of Democratization
5 The Economic Bases of Democratization
6 Globalization and African Democracy
7 Crisis Management and the Making of "Choiceless Democracies"
8 The "Mauritius Miracle": Democracy, Institutions, and Economic Policy
PART 3 Political Restructuring and Regime Politics
9 African Polities: The Next Generation
10 Governance and the Reconstitution of Political Order
11 Senegal's Enlarged Presidential Majority: Deepening Democracy or Detour?
12 Testing Democracy in Benin: Experiments in Institutional Reform
13 Race, Class, and Neopatrimonialism in Zimbabwe
14 The Role of Citizenship Laws in Multiethnic Societies: Evidence from Africa
15 Local Governance, Democracy, and Development
PART 4 Ethnicity, Conflict, and Insecurity
16 Ethnic Politics in Africa: Change and Continuity
17 Ethnic Insecurity, Peace Agreements, and State Building
18 State, Civil Society, and Genocide in Rwanda
19 Autocracy, Violence, and Ethnomilitary Rule in Nigeria
PART 5 Elections and Democratization
20 A First Look at Second Elections in Africa, with Illustrations from Zambia
21 Ghana: The Challenges of Consolidating Democracy
22 Challenges to Democratic Consolidation in Namibia
PART 6 Conclusion
23 State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa: The Complex Process of Renewal
ABBREVIATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
ABOUT THE BOOK

Beteiligte: Bates, Robert H. [Mitwirkende:r]; Bauer, Gretchen [Mitwirkende:r]; Beck, Linda J. [Mitwirkende:r]; Bratton, Michael [Mitwirkende:r]; Brautigam, Deborah [Mitwirkende:r]; Gyimah-Boadi, E. [Mitwirkende:r]; Harbeson, John W [Mitwirkende:r]; Herbst, Jeffrey [Mitwirkende:r]; Hyden, Goran [Mitwirkende:r]; Joseph, Richard [Mitwirkende:r]; Joseph, Richard [Herausgeber:in]; Longman, Timothy [Mitwirkende:r]; Magnusson, Bruce A. [Mitwirkende:r]; Mkandawire, Thandika [Mitwirkende:r]; Olowu, Dele [Mitwirkende:r]; Ottaway, Marina [Mitwirkende:r]; Posner, Daniel N. [Mitwirkende:r]; Rothchild, Donald [Mitwirkende:r]; Sklar, Richard L. [Mitwirkende:r]; Taylor, Scott D. [Mitwirkende:r]; Van De Walle, Nicolas [Mitwirkende:r]; Young, Crawford [Mitwirkende:r]

Erschienen: Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2023

Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (532 p.)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9781685851828

ISBN: 9781685851828

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Schlagwörter: POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African

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Anmerkungen: In English

Beschreibung: This seminal volume explores the most important dimensions of state formation and erosion, social conflict, and the gains and setbacks in democratization in contemporary Africa. The results of nearly a decade of research, reflection, and collegial interaction, the collection delineates the dominant patterns of political restructuring since the upheavals of the early 1990s

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