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Jonathan van Eerd

The Quality of Democracy in Africa

Opposition Competitiveness Rooted in Legacies of Cleavages. 1st edition 2017. Sprachen: Englisch. 21,6 cm / 15,3 cm / 2,1 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 296 Seiten
EAN 9783319508375
Veröffentlicht April 2017
Verlag/Hersteller Springer

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This book shows that democratization in sub-Saharan Africa can be successful, even if the government remains dominated by one major political party. If an institutionalized and strong opposition party - even when too weak to take power - challenges the dominant government party, the quality of democracy improves substantially. The comparative study demonstrates that competitive opposition parties in dominant party systems are rooted in the historical legacy of political cleavages related to de-colonization that precede the third wave of democratization of the 1990s and have survived the instability of post-independence political developments to the present day. The study covers 19 African countries and 55 elections overall, including four in-depth case studies of Botswana, Lesotho, Ghana and Mali. It offers scholars and practitioners of electoral democracies and competitive authoritarian regimes a novel view on the role of party systems in processes of democratization. It makes an important contribution to the general literature on state building intertwined with democratization and representation in old and new democracies.

Portrait

Jonathan van Eerd is a political analyst specialized on Africa. He is a former senior research and teaching associate at the Department for Political Science, University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research and teaching focus on democratization processes and party systems. Jonathan was a visiting scholar at Cornell University, N.Y., with university affiliations in Botswana, Lesotho and Ghana.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The Conceptualization of Opposition Competitiveness and its Significance for Dominant Party System Responsiveness.- Chapter 3: Explanations for Dierent Opposition Competitiveness Degrees in African Dominant Party Systems.-Chapter 4: Comparative Historical Explanation of Contemporary Opposition Competitiveness Degrees in Four Crucial Cases.- Chapter 5: Party System Responsiveness in Contemporary Botswana, Lesotho, Ghana and Mali.- Chapter 6: General Conclusion.

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