1st Edition

Democratization in Africa: Challenges and Prospects

Edited By Gordon Crawford, Gabrielle Lynch Copyright 2012
304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

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,... Read more

Chapter 1. Democratization in Africa 1990–2010: an assessment Gabrielle Lynch and Gordon Crawford, University of Leeds

Chapter 2. The abrogation of the electorate: an emergent African phenomenon Wale Adebanwi and Ebenezer Obadare

Chapter 3. The internal dynamics of power-sharing in Africa Nic Cheeseman, Oxford University

Chapter 4. Taking back our democracy? The trials and travails of Nigerian elections since 1999 Cyril Obi

Chapter 5. An autocrat’s toolkit: adaptation and manipulation in ‘democratic’ Cameroon Ericka A. Albaugh

Chapter 6. Can democratization undermine democracy? Economic and political reform in Uganda Michael F. Keating

Chapter 7. Democracy promotion in Africa: the institutional context Oda van Cranenburgh

Chapter 8. Ethnicity and party preference in sub-Saharan Africa Matthias Basedau, Gero Erdmann, Jann Lay & Alexander Stroh

Chapter 9. Democracy, identity and the politics of exclusion in post-genocide Rwanda: the case of the Batwa Danielle Beswick

Chapter 10. ‘Well, what can you expect?’: donor officials’ apologetics for hybrid regimes in Africa Stephen Brown

Chapter 11. Democratic crisis or crisis of confidence? What local perceptual lenses
tell us about Madagascar’s 2009 political crisis Lauren Leigh Hinthorne, University of York

Biography

Gordon Crawford is Professor of Development Politics at the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

Gabrielle Lynch is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick.