1st Edition
Contending Political Paradigms in Africa Rationality and the Politics of Democratization in Kenya and Zambia
By Shadrack Wanjala Nasong’o
Copyright 2005
246 Pages
by
Routledge
245 Pages
by
Routledge
This book focuses on the politics of democratization in Africa, especially the strategic choices of the political elite, both incumbent and opposition within the context of transition politics. The decade 1990- 2000 saw a total of 78 top leadership elections involving 43 of the 48 sub-Saharan African countries. Of these elections, only 27% led to regime change. Yet even where regime change... Read more
Introduction. 1. Emergence of Authoritarianism 2. The Forces of Democratization 3. The Centrality of Civil Society 4. The Role of Ethnicity 5. The Primacy of Electoral System Design 6. Rational Politics and Democratization 7. Prospects for Democratic Consolidation
Biography
Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o has a Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs, and is currently Associate Professor and Chair, Department of International Studies, Rhodes College, Memphis. He previously taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Kenyatta University, Kenya, University of Nairobi, Kenya and Northeastern University, Boston. His publications include Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa (2013); The African Search for Stable Forms of Statehood (2008); and Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy (2007).
