Democracy in Africa

Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform

AvNic Cheeseman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Del 9 i serien New Approaches to African History

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Beskrivning

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often failed, as well as how they could succeed. Nic Cheeseman grapples with some of the most important questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether international actors should try and promote democracy abroad, how to design political systems that manage ethnic diversity, and why democratic governments often make bad policy decisions. Beginning in the colonial period with the introduction of multi-party elections and ending in 2013 with the collapse of democracy in Mali and South Sudan, the book describes the rise of authoritarian states in the 1970s; the attempts of trade unions and some religious groups to check the abuse of power in the 1980s; the remarkable return of multiparty politics in the 1990s; and finally, the tragic tendency for elections to exacerbate corruption and violence.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Approaches to African History
Antal sidor:268
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521191128

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Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Nic Cheeseman is Associate Professor of African Politics of the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. He is the coeditor of the collections Our Turn to Eat (2010) and The Handbook of African Politics (2013). He is also the editor of the journal African Affairs, a member of the advisory board of the UNICEF Chair on Communication Research (Africa) and an advisor to, and writer for, Kofi Annan's African Progress Panel.

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'Accessible yet authoritative and often provocative, Nic Cheeseman's book provides an exceptional history of contemporary democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa. His book's great strength is to combine attention to the varied historical and cultural roots of issues that emerged in the 1990s with a keen grasp of the political implications of the institutions that have been chosen to rule the countries of the region. Buttressed by compelling examples and statistics from seemingly every country in the region, this book is must-reading for anyone interested in African politics.' Nicolas van de Walle, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government, Cornell University, New York

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Fragments of democracy; 2. Cultures of resistance; 3. The second liberation; 4. Exporting elections; 5. Subverting democracy; 6. The democratic dividend; Conclusion.