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Zusatztext The current National Resistance Movement government in Uganda rests on a puzzling combination of the stability and resilience of President Museveni’s rule on the one hand, and an increasingly personalized and vulnerable system on the other. In this volume, a collective of Uganda-experts offers important and insightful perspectives on this puzzle. A must read to help us understand not only the Ugandan path but processes of autocratization on the African continent and elsewhere. Informationen zum Autor Dr Moses Khisa is Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, North Carolina State University, USA. Klappentext Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda analyses two interrelated outcomes: autocratisation, manifest in the deepening of personalist rule or Musevenism, and the regime resilience that has made Museveni one of Africa's current-longest surviving rulers. How has this feat been possible, and what has been the trajectory of Museveni's increasingly autocratic rule?Surveying that trajectory since 1986, the book takes as its primary focus the years since 2005; bringing to the fore the 'autocratic turn', placing it within a broader comparative lens, and enriching it with comparative references to cases outside of Uganda. While positing the notion of 'autocratic adaptability' as a defining hallmark of Museveni's rule, the book examines the factors and forces that have made that adaptability possible, analysing the dynamics around three keys themes: institutions, resources, and coalitions. Through empirical research, each chapter seeks to demonstrate how either one or two of these three variables have functioned in propelling autocratization and assuring regime resilience - producing theoretical and and comparative implications that reach beyond Uganda. Vorwort An exploration of the autocratization in Museveni’s Uganda, seeking to explain both resilience and the deepening of personalist rule. Zusammenfassung Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda analyses two interrelated outcomes: autocratisation, manifest in the deepening of personalist rule or Musevenism, and the regime resilience that has made Museveni one of Africa's current-longest surviving rulers. How has this feat been possible, and what has been the trajectory of Museveni’s increasingly autocratic rule?Surveying that trajectory since 1986, the book takes as its primary focus the years since 2005; bringing to the fore the ‘autocratic turn’, placing it within a broader comparative lens, and enriching it with comparative references to cases outside of Uganda. While positing the notion of 'autocratic adaptability' as a defining hallmark of Museveni’s rule, the book examines the factors and forces that have made that adaptability possible, analysing the dynamics around three keys themes: institutions, resources, and coalitions. Through empirical research, each chapter seeks to demonstrate how either one or two of these three variables have functioned in propelling autocratization and assuring regime resilience - producing theoretical and and comparative implications that reach beyond Uganda. Inhaltsverzeichnis PREFACEACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTION: Theory and Trajectory of Autocratization in Contemporary UgandaMoses Khisa, North Carolina State University, USAPart I: CLIENTELISM AND RESOURCESChapter 1: Political Clientelism and Museveni’s AuthoritarianismNelson Kasfir, Dartmouth College, USAChapter 2: “The one and only Revolutionary President”: Heritage, Memory and the Personalisation of NRM RuleJonathan Fisher, University of Birmingham, UK, and Stephanie Cawood, University of the Free State, South AfricaChapter 3: Museveni and Government-Foreign Business Relations in the Electricity SectorRoger Tangri and Andrew M. MwendaPart II: CO-OPTATION, COERCION & SOCIAL CONTROLChapter 4: State Co-optation of Feminism: Unpacking the Paradoxes of Political Represe...
