[PDF] Political Opposition And Democracy In Sub Saharan Africa eBook

Author : Elliott Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134933053

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This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. Why is room for political opposition in most cases so severely limited? Under what circumstances has the political opposition been able to establish itself in a legitimate role in African politics? To answer these questions this edited volume focuses on the institutional settings, the nature and dynamics within and between political parties, and the relationship between the citizens and political parties. It is found that regional devolution and federalist structures enable political opposition to organize and gain local power, as a supplement to influence at the central level. Generally, however, opposition parties are lacking in organization and institutionalization, as well as in their ability to find support in civil society and promote the issues that voters find most important. Overall, strong executive powers, unchecked by democratic institutions, in combination with deferential values and fear of conflict, undermine legitimate opposition activity. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

Author : Adebayo O. Olukoshi
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 33,48 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789171064196

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Author : Elliott Daniel Green
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780415870382

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This book scrutinizes current challenges of political opposition in Sub-Saharan Africa, through a number of case studies. In doing so, the book focuses on the institutional settings, the nature and dynamics within and between the political parties, and the relationship between the citizens and the political parties. It was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

Author : John A. Wiseman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134829892

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The book provides readers a set of case studies covering a diverse range of African states in order to identify the major causes of change and the movement towards democracy.

Author : Jonathan van Eerd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,64 MB
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319508385

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This book shows that democratization in sub-Saharan Africa can be successful, even if the government remains dominated by one major political party. If an institutionalized and strong opposition party – even when too weak to take power – challenges the dominant government party, the quality of democracy improves substantially. The comparative study demonstrates that competitive opposition parties in dominant party systems are rooted in the historical legacy of political cleavages related to de-colonization that precede the third wave of democratization of the 1990s and have survived the instability of post-independence political developments to the present day. The study covers 19 African countries and 55 elections overall, including four in-depth case studies of Botswana, Lesotho, Ghana and Mali. It offers scholars and practitioners of electoral democracies and competitive authoritarian regimes a novel view on the role of party systems in processes of democratization. It makes an important contribution to the general literature on state building intertwined with democratization and representation in old and new democracies.

Author : Roger Southall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,61 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135277419

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This collection examines the nature, scope and prospects for political opposition under African National Congress political dominance.

Author : Wolfgang Stuppert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030227928

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This book explores why democratization processes in Sub-Saharan Africa have made so little progress despite more than two decades of multi-party politics on the subcontinent. By applying multiple linear regression analyses to a new data set on multi-party elections in Sub-Saharan Africa, the study investigates the relationship between political mobilizations and electoral competitiveness. It finds that the more societal groups engage in political mobilizations, such as protests and strikes, the more competitive elections become. Based on these results, the author argues for a change in the policies of international democracy assistance programs. The study’s findings suggest that efforts to promote democracy would likely be more successful if international donors focused their support on organizations that have active constituencies and are willing to use their mobilization capacity to address ruling elites with political or socio-economic grievances.

Author : John Michael Healey
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 31,96 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN :

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Examines the political dimensions of economic policy making in the 1970s and 1980s.

Author : Gordon Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135706352

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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