1st Edition

Ethnic Politics and Democratic Transition in Rwanda

By David Kiwuwa Copyright 2012
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an examination of how a deeply divided post-conflict society embarks on democratic transition. Using Rwanda as the case study, it combines analysis of democratic transition and ethnopolitical debate, asking why deeply divided ethnic societies have a tendency to fail. Though marginalised in existing literature on democratic transition, this path-breaking book shows how ethnicity... Read more

Introduction 1. A General Theoretical Analysis: Ethnicity (ethnopolitics) and Democratic Transition  2. The Fallacy of Existing Transition Models: Consociationalism Revisited  3. Rwanda: The Pre-colonial and Colonial Background  4. The First Republic (1959 – 1973)  5. When Democratic Transition Killed  6. Slouching Towards Democratic Transition  7. Crowning the Transition? The 2003 Legislative and Presidential Elections  Conclusion

Biography

David E. Kiwuwa is an Assistant Professor in the School of International Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.