Turning points in African democracy

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The work Turning points in African democracy represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Turning points in African democracy

Statement of responsibility

edited by Abdul Raufu Mustapha & Lindsay Whitfield

Contributor

• Whitfield, Lindsay, 1978-
• Whitfield, Lindsay, 1978-
• Mustapha, Abdul Raufu

Editor

• Mustapha, Abdul Raufu
• Whitfield, Lindsay, 1978-
• Whitfield, Lindsay, 1978-

Subject

• Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960- -- Case studies
• Decentralization in government -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies
• Democratization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Case studies

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

Radical changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the realities of these changes? What significant differences have emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy in the continent? The editors have chosen eleven key countries to provide enlightening comparisons and contrasts to stimulate discussion among students. They have brought together a team of scholars who are actively working in the changing Africa of today. Each chapter is structured around a framing event which defines the experience of democratisation. The editors have provided an overview of the turning points in African politics. They engage with debates on how to study and evaluate democracy in Africa, such as the limits of elections. They identify four major themes with which to examine similarities and divergences as well as to explain change and continuity in what happened in the past. ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA is University Lecturer in African Politics at Queen Elizabeth House and Kirk-Greene Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford; LINDSAY WHITFIELD is a Research Fellow at the Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Dewey number

321.80967

Index

index present

LC call number

JQ1875.A55D42

LC item number

T87 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries