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This book explains why some African churches advocate for stronger liberal democratic institutions to protect their activities, particularly schools, from state intervention. It also explores how fiscal dependence on the state influences advocacy and the political consequences of church advocacy for liberal democracy.
List of contents
Part I. Theory: 1. Church interests in liberal democracy; 2. Liberal democracy as an institutional guarantee of church interests; 3. The politics of church education in Sub-Saharan Africa; Part II. Testing the Main Hypotheses: 4. Evidence on church democratic activism in Africa: the effect of church schools and autocratic risk exposure; 5. Evidence on Catholic democratic activism in Africa: the effect of church school dependence on state subsidies; Part III. Testing Underlying Assumptions; 6. Church activism and support for liberal democratic institutions: evidence from Zambia and Tanzania; 7. Tracing liberal democracy's influence on educational policy: evidence from Zambia, Ghana, and beyond; Part IV. Extensions and Implications: 8. Church school legacies for citizenship: evidence from Zambia and Tanzania; 9. Reconsidering churches, education, and democracy in the contemporary world; Appendices; Appendix A. List of interviews; Appendix B. Data sets; Appendix C. Additional table Chapter 7; Appendix D. Additional tables Chapter 8.
About the author
Kate Baldwin is Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at Yale University. She is the author of The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa (2016), which was awarded the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize.
