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Democracy in Africa - Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform (Hardcover)
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Democracy in Africa - Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform (Hardcover)
Series: New Approaches to African History
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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history
of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic
experiments have so often failed, as well as how they could
succeed. Nic Cheeseman grapples with some of the most important
questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether
international actors should try and promote democracy abroad, how
to design political systems that manage ethnic diversity, and why
democratic governments often make bad policy decisions. Beginning
in the colonial period with the introduction of multi-party
elections and ending in 2013 with the collapse of democracy in Mali
and South Sudan, the book describes the rise of authoritarian
states in the 1970s; the attempts of trade unions and some
religious groups to check the abuse of power in the 1980s; the
remarkable return of multiparty politics in the 1990s; and finally,
the tragic tendency for elections to exacerbate corruption and
violence.
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