عنوان

A Decade of Democracy in Africa

Number

LA115134

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

A Decade of Democracy in Africa

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Stephen Ndegwa

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

This paper offers a broad retrospective on the experience of democracy in Africa over the last decade. It advances five major arguments to explain why the democractic experiment has had such a checkered history. It is argued that in order to gauge the pace and content of democratization, scholars need to move beyond the preoccupation with events in the political and legal spaces (i.e., elections and constitutions) by including a focus on issues such as changing social norms, generational change, and class and gender issues. This paper offers a broad retrospective on the experience of democracy in Africa over the last decade. It advances five major arguments to explain why the democractic experiment has had such a checkered history. It is argued that in order to gauge the pace and content of democratization, scholars need to move beyond the preoccupation with events in the political and legal spaces (i.e., elections and constitutions) by including a focus on issues such as changing social norms, generational change, and class and gender issues.

Date of Publication

2001

Physical description

1-16

Title

Journal of Asian and African Studies

Volume Number

36/1

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5217

Stephen Ndegwa

Call Number

10.1163/156852101300143064

Electronic name

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[Article]

275578

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