Democracy in Africa - Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform

Informationen zum Autor Nic Cheeseman is Associate Professor of African Politics of the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. He is the coeditor of the collections Our Turn to Eat (2010) and The Handbook of African Politics (2013). He is also the editor of the journal African Affairs, a member of the advisory board of the UNICEF Chair on Communication Research (Africa) and an advisor to, and writer for, Kofi Annan's African Progress Panel. Klappentext This book provides the first comprehensive overview of Africa's history of democracy, grappling with important questions facing Africa today.This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and grapples with important questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether international actors should promote democracy abroad, how to design political systems that manage ethnic diversity, and why democratic governments often make bad policies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Fragments of democracy; 2. Cultures of resistance; 3. The second liberation; 4. Exporting elections; 5. Subverting democracy; 6. The democratic dividend; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Nic Cheeseman, Nic (University of Oxford) Cheeseman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.05.2015
• EAN: 9780521191128
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19112-8
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: New Approaches to African History; New Approaches to African History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous