Overview

It is two decades since the ‘third wave’ of democratization began to roll across sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s. This book provides a very timely investigation into the progress and setbacks over that period, the challenges that remain and the prospects for future democratization in Africa. It commences with an overall assessment of the (lack of) progress made from 1990 to 2010, exploring positive developments with reasons for caution. Based on original research, subsequent contributions examine various themes through country case-studies, inclusive of: the routinisation of elections, accompanied by democratic rollback and the rise of hybrid regimes; the tenacity of presidential powers; the dilemmas of power-sharing; ethnic voting and rise of a violent politics of belonging; the role of ‘donors’ and the ambiguities of ‘democracy promotion’. Overall, the book concludes that steps forward remain greater than reversals and that typically, though not universally, sub-Saharan African countries are more democratic today than in the late 1980s. Nonetheless, the book also calls for more meaningful processes of democratization that aim not only at securing civil and political rights, but also socio-economic rights and the physical security of African citizens. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization

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Author:   Gordon Crawford (University of Leeds, UK) ,  Gabrielle Lynch (University of Warwick, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9780415508322

ISBN 10:   0415508320
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   14 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Democratization in Africa 1990–2010: An Assessment Gabrielle Lynch and Gordon Crawford 2. The Abrogation of the Electorate: An Emergent African Phenomenon Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare 3. The Internal Dynamics of Power-Sharing in Africa Nic Cheeseman 4. Taking Back our Democracy? The Trials and Travails of Nigerian Elections since 1999 Cyril Obi 5. An Autocrat’s Toolkit: Adaptation and Manipulation in ‘Democratic’ Cameroon Ericka A. Albaugh 6. Can Democratization Undermine Democracy? Economic and Political Reform in Uganda Michael F. Keating 7. Democracy Promotion in Africa: The Institutional Context Oda van Cranenburgh 8. Ethnicity and Party Preference in Sub-Saharan Africa Matthias Basedau, Gero Erdmann, Jann Lay and Alexander Stroh 9. Democracy, Identity and the Politics of Exclusion in Post-Genocide Rwanda: The Case of the Batwa Danielle Beswick 10. ‘Well, what can you expect?’: Donor Officials’ Apologetics for Hybrid Regimes in Africa Stephen Brown 11. Democratic Crisis or Crisis of Confidence? What Local Perceptual Lenses Tell Us about Madagascar’s 2009 Political Crisis Lauren Leigh Hinthorne

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Gordon Crawford is Professor of Development Politics at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK. Gabrielle Lynch is Senior Lecturer in Africa and the Politics of Development at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

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