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- By Rose Teteki Abbey, K. C. Abraham, David Tuesday Adamo, LeRoy H. Aden, Efrain Agosto, Victor Aguilan, Gillian T. W. Ahlgren, Charanjit Kaur AjitSingh, Dorothy B E A Akoto, Giuseppe Alberigo, Daniel E. Albrecht, Ruth Albrecht, Daniel O. Aleshire, Urs Altermatt, Anand Amaladass, Michael Amaladoss, James N. Amanze, Lesley G. Anderson, Thomas C. Anderson, Victor Anderson, Hope S. Antone, María Pilar Aquino, Paula Arai, Victorio Araya Guillén, S. Wesley Ariarajah, Ellen T. Armour, Brett Gregory Armstrong, Atsuhiro Asano, Naim Stifan Ateek, Mahmoud Ayoub, John Alembillah Azumah, Mercedes L. García Bachmann, Irena Backus, J. Wayne Baker, Mieke Bal, Lewis V. Baldwin, William Barbieri, António Barbosa da Silva, David Basinger, Bolaji Olukemi Bateye, Oswald Bayer, Daniel H. Bays, Rosalie Beck, Nancy Elizabeth Bedford, Guy-Thomas Bedouelle, Chorbishop Seely Beggiani, Wolfgang Behringer, Christopher M. Bellitto, Byard Bennett, Harold V. Bennett, Teresa Berger, Miguel A. Bernad, Henley Bernard, Alan E. Bernstein, Jon L. Berquist, Johannes Beutler, Ana María Bidegain, Matthew P. Binkewicz, Jennifer Bird, Joseph Blenkinsopp, Dmytro Bondarenko, Paulo Bonfatti, Riet en Pim Bons-Storm, Jessica A. Boon, Marcus J. Borg, Mark Bosco, Peter C. Bouteneff, François Bovon, William D. Bowman, Paul S. Boyer, David Brakke, Richard E. Brantley, Marcus Braybrooke, Ian Breward, Ênio José da Costa Brito, Jewel Spears Brooker, Johannes Brosseder, Nicholas Canfield Read Brown, Robert F. Brown, Pamela K. Brubaker, Walter Brueggemann, Bishop Colin O. Buchanan, Stanley M. Burgess, Amy Nelson Burnett, J. Patout Burns, David B. Burrell, David Buttrick, James P. Byrd, Lavinia Byrne, Gerado Caetano, Marcos Caldas, Alkiviadis Calivas, William J. Callahan, Salvatore Calomino, Euan K. Cameron, William S. Campbell, Marcelo Ayres Camurça, Daniel F. Caner, Paul E. Capetz, Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi, Patrick W. Carey, Barbara Carvill, Hal Cauthron, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Mark D. Chapman, James H. Charlesworth, Kenneth R. Chase, Chen Zemin, Luciano Chianeque, Philip Chia Phin Yin, Francisca H. Chimhanda, Daniel Chiquete, John T. Chirban, Soobin Choi, Robert Choquette, Mita Choudhury, Gerald Christianson, John Chryssavgis, Sejong Chun, Esther Chung-Kim, Charles M. A. Clark, Elizabeth A. Clark, Sathianathan Clarke, Fred Cloud, John B. Cobb, W. Owen Cole, John A Coleman, John J. Collins, Sylvia Collins-Mayo, Paul K. Conkin, Beth A. Conklin, Sean Connolly, Demetrios J. Constantelos, Michael A. Conway, Paula M. Cooey, Austin Cooper, Michael L. Cooper-White, Pamela Cooper-White, L. William Countryman, Sérgio Coutinho, Pamela Couture, Shannon Craigo-Snell, James L. Crenshaw, David Crowner, Humberto Horacio Cucchetti, Lawrence S. Cunningham, Elizabeth Mason Currier, Emmanuel Cutrone, Mary L. Daniel, David D. Daniels, Robert Darden, Rolf Darge, Isaiah Dau, Jeffry C. Davis, Jane Dawson, Valentin Dedji, John W. de Gruchy, Paul DeHart, Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards, Miguel A. De La Torre, George E. Demacopoulos, Thomas de Mayo, Leah DeVun, Beatriz de Vasconcellos Dias, Dennis C. Dickerson, John M. Dillon, Luis Miguel Donatello, Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev, Susanna Drake, Jonathan A. Draper, N. Dreher Martin, Otto Dreydoppel, Angelyn Dries, A. J. Droge, Francis X. D'Sa, Marilyn Dunn, Nicole Wilkinson Duran, Rifaat Ebied, Mark J. Edwards, William H. Edwards, Leonard H. Ehrlich, Nancy L. Eiesland, Martin Elbel, J. Harold Ellens, Stephen Ellingson, Marvin M. Ellison, Robert Ellsberg, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Eldon Jay Epp, Peter C. Erb, Tassilo Erhardt, Maria Erling, Noel Leo Erskine, Gillian R. Evans, Virginia Fabella, Michael A. Fahey, Edward Farley, Margaret A. Farley, Wendy Farley, Robert Fastiggi, Seena Fazel, Duncan S. Ferguson, Helwar Figueroa, Paul Corby Finney, Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald, Thomas E. FitzGerald, John R. Fitzmier, Marie Therese Flanagan, Sabina Flanagan, Claude Flipo, Ronald B. Flowers, Carole Fontaine, David Ford, Mary Ford, Stephanie A. Ford, Jim Forest, William Franke, Robert M. Franklin, Ruth Franzén, Edward H. Friedman, Samuel Frouisou, Lorelei F. Fuchs, Jojo M. Fung, Inger Furseth, Richard R. Gaillardetz, Brandon Gallaher, China Galland, Mark Galli, Ismael García, Tharscisse Gatwa, Jean-Marie Gaudeul, Luis María Gavilanes del Castillo, Pavel L. Gavrilyuk, Volney P. Gay, Metropolitan Athanasios Geevargis, Kondothra M. George, Mary Gerhart, Simon Gikandi, Maurice Gilbert, Michael J. Gillgannon, Verónica Giménez Beliveau, Terryl Givens, Beth Glazier-McDonald, Philip Gleason, Menghun Goh, Brian Golding, Bishop Hilario M. Gomez, Michelle A. Gonzalez, Donald K. Gorrell, Roy Gottfried, Tamara Grdzelidze, Joel B. Green, Niels Henrik Gregersen, Cristina Grenholm, Herbert Griffiths, Eric W. Gritsch, Erich S. Gruen, Christoffer H. Grundmann, Paul H. Gundani, Jon P. Gunnemann, Petre Guran, Vidar L. Haanes, Jeremiah M. Hackett, Getatchew Haile, Douglas John Hall, Nicholas Hammond, Daphne Hampson, Jehu J. Hanciles, Barry Hankins, Jennifer Haraguchi, Stanley S. Harakas, Anthony John Harding, Conrad L. Harkins, J. William Harmless, Marjory Harper, Amir Harrak, Joel F. Harrington, Mark W. Harris, Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Van A. Harvey, R. Chris Hassel, Jione Havea, Daniel Hawk, Diana L. Hayes, Leslie Hayes, Priscilla Hayner, S. Mark Heim, Simo Heininen, Richard P. Heitzenrater, Eila Helander, David Hempton, Scott H. Hendrix, Jan-Olav Henriksen, Gina Hens-Piazza, Carter Heyward, Nicholas J. Higham, David Hilliard, Norman A. Hjelm, Peter C. Hodgson, Arthur Holder, M. Jan Holton, Dwight N. Hopkins, Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Po-Ho Huang, James Hudnut-Beumler, Jennifer S. Hughes, Leonard M. Hummel, Mary E. Hunt, Laennec Hurbon, Mark Hutchinson, Susan E. Hylen, Mary Beth Ingham, H. Larry Ingle, Dale T. Irvin, Jon Isaak, Paul John Isaak, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Hans Raun Iversen, Margaret C. Jacob, Arthur James, Maria Jansdotter-Samuelsson, David Jasper, Werner G. Jeanrond, Renée Jeffery, David Lyle Jeffrey, Theodore W. Jennings, David H. Jensen, Robin Margaret Jensen, David Jobling, Dale A. Johnson, Elizabeth A. Johnson, Maxwell E. Johnson, Sarah Johnson, Mark D. Johnston, F. Stanley Jones, James William Jones, John R. Jones, Alissa Jones Nelson, Inge Jonsson, Jan Joosten, Elizabeth Judd, Mulambya Peggy Kabonde, Robert Kaggwa, Sylvester Kahakwa, Isaac Kalimi, Ogbu U. Kalu, Eunice Kamaara, Wayne C. Kannaday, Musimbi Kanyoro, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Frank Kaufmann, Léon Nguapitshi Kayongo, Richard Kearney, Alice A. Keefe, Ralph Keen, Catherine Keller, Anthony J. Kelly, Karen Kennelly, Kathi Lynn Kern, Fergus Kerr, Edward Kessler, George Kilcourse, Heup Young Kim, Kim Sung-Hae, Kim Yong-Bock, Kim Yung Suk, Richard King, Thomas M. King, Robert M. Kingdon, Ross Kinsler, Hans G. Kippenberg, Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Clifton Kirkpatrick, Leonid Kishkovsky, Nadieszda Kizenko, Jeffrey Klaiber, Hans-Josef Klauck, Sidney Knight, Samuel Kobia, Robert Kolb, Karla Ann Koll, Heikki Kotila, Donald Kraybill, Philip D. W. Krey, Yves Krumenacker, Jeffrey Kah-Jin Kuan, Simanga R. Kumalo, Peter Kuzmic, Simon Shui-Man Kwan, Kwok Pui-lan, André LaCocque, Stephen E. Lahey, John Tsz Pang Lai, Emiel Lamberts, Armando Lampe, Craig Lampe, Beverly J. Lanzetta, Eve LaPlante, Lizette Larson-Miller, Ariel Bybee Laughton, Leonard Lawlor, Bentley Layton, Robin A. Leaver, Karen Lebacqz, Archie Chi Chung Lee, Marilyn J. Legge, Hervé LeGrand, D. L. LeMahieu, Raymond Lemieux, Bill J. Leonard, Ellen M. Leonard, Outi Leppä, Jean Lesaulnier, Nantawan Boonprasat Lewis, Henrietta Leyser, Alexei Lidov, Bernard Lightman, Paul Chang-Ha Lim, Carter Lindberg, Mark R. Lindsay, James R. Linville, James C. Livingston, Ann Loades, David Loades, Jean-Claude Loba-Mkole, Lo Lung Kwong, Wati Longchar, Eleazar López, David W. Lotz, Andrew Louth, Robin W. Lovin, William Luis, Frank D. Macchia, Diarmaid N. J. MacCulloch, Kirk R. MacGregor, Marjory A. MacLean, Donald MacLeod, Tomas S. Maddela, Inge Mager, Laurenti Magesa, David G. Maillu, Fortunato Mallimaci, Philip Mamalakis, Kä Mana, Ukachukwu Chris Manus, Herbert Robinson Marbury, Reuel Norman Marigza, Jacqueline Mariña, Antti Marjanen, Luiz C. L. Marques, Madipoane Masenya (ngwan'a Mphahlele), Caleb J. D. Maskell, Steve Mason, Thomas Massaro, Fernando Matamoros Ponce, András Máté-Tóth, Odair Pedroso Mateus, Dinis Matsolo, Fumitaka Matsuoka, John D'Arcy May, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, Theodore Mbazumutima, John S. McClure, Christian McConnell, Lee Martin McDonald, Gary B. McGee, Thomas McGowan, Alister E. McGrath, Richard J. McGregor, John A. McGuckin, Maud Burnett McInerney, Elsie Anne McKee, Mary B. McKinley, James F. McMillan, Ernan McMullin, Kathleen E. McVey, M. Douglas Meeks, Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon, Ilie Melniciuc-Puica, Everett Mendoza, Raymond A. Mentzer, William W. Menzies, Ina Merdjanova, Franziska Metzger, Constant J. Mews, Marvin Meyer, Carol Meyers, Vasile Mihoc, Gunner Bjerg Mikkelsen, Maria Inêz de Castro Millen, Clyde Lee Miller, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Alexander Mirkovic, Paul Misner, Nozomu Miyahira, R. W. L. Moberly, Gerald Moede, Aloo Osotsi Mojola, Sunanda Mongia, Rebeca Montemayor, James Moore, Roger E. Moore, Craig E. Morrison O.Carm, Jeffry H. Morrison, Keith Morrison, Wilson J. Moses, Tefetso Henry Mothibe, Mokgethi Motlhabi, Fulata Moyo, Henry Mugabe, Jesse Ndwiga Kanyua Mugambi, Peggy Mulambya-Kabonde, Robert Bruce Mullin, Pamela Mullins Reaves, Saskia Murk Jansen, Heleen L. Murre-Van den Berg, Augustine Musopole, Isaac M. T. Mwase, Philomena Mwaura, Cecilia Nahnfeldt, Anne Nasimiyu Wasike, Carmiña Navia Velasco, Thulani Ndlazi, Alexander Negrov, James B. Nelson, David G. Newcombe, Carol Newsom, Helen J. Nicholson, George W. E. Nickelsburg, Tatyana Nikolskaya, Damayanthi M. A. Niles, Bertil Nilsson, Nyambura Njoroge, Fidelis Nkomazana, Mary Beth Norton, Christian Nottmeier, Sonene Nyawo, Anthère Nzabatsinda, Edward T. Oakes, Gerald O'Collins, Daniel O'Connell, David W. Odell-Scott, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Kathleen O'Grady, Oyeronke Olajubu, Thomas O'Loughlin, Dennis T. Olson, J. Steven O'Malley, Cephas N. Omenyo, Muriel Orevillo-Montenegro, César Augusto Ornellas Ramos, Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, Kenan B. Osborne, Carolyn Osiek, Javier Otaola Montagne, Douglas F. Ottati, Anna May Say Pa, Irina Paert, Jerry G. Pankhurst, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Samuele F. Pardini, Stefano Parenti, Peter Paris, Sung Bae Park, Cristián G. Parker, Raquel Pastor, Joseph Pathrapankal, Daniel Patte, W. Brown Patterson, Clive Pearson, Keith F. Pecklers, Nancy Cardoso Pereira, David Horace Perkins, Pheme Perkins, Edward N. Peters, Rebecca Todd Peters, Bishop Yeznik Petrossian, Raymond Pfister, Peter C. Phan, Isabel Apawo Phiri, William S. F. Pickering, Derrick G. Pitard, William Elvis Plata, Zlatko Plese, John Plummer, James Newton Poling, Ronald Popivchak, Andrew Porter, Ute Possekel, James M. Powell, Enos Das Pradhan, Devadasan Premnath, Jaime Adrían Prieto Valladares, Anne Primavesi, Randall Prior, María Alicia Puente Lutteroth, Eduardo Guzmão Quadros, Albert Rabil, Laurent William Ramambason, Apolonio M. Ranche, Vololona Randriamanantena Andriamitandrina, Lawrence R. Rast, Paul L. Redditt, Adele Reinhartz, Rolf Rendtorff, Pål Repstad, James N. Rhodes, John K. Riches, Joerg Rieger, Sharon H. Ringe, Sandra Rios, Tyler Roberts, David M. Robinson, James M. Robinson, Joanne Maguire Robinson, Richard A. H. Robinson, Roy R. Robson, Jack B. Rogers, Maria Roginska, Sidney Rooy, Rev. Garnett Roper, Maria José Fontelas Rosado-Nunes, Andrew C. Ross, Stefan Rossbach, François Rossier, John D. Roth, John K. Roth, Phillip Rothwell, Richard E. 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Chapter 7 - The Prospects for Democracy
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In October 1993, Burundi's elected president Melchior Ndadaye was brutally murdered in the course of a military coup d'état, just four months after the country's first peaceful multiparty elections. Observers suggested that the Tutsiled military had been unwilling to cede power to a government dominated by Hutu civilian politicians. In Gambia, another elected civilian regime – this one long-standing – was overthrown by the military on July 22, 1994. The main justification claimed by the soldiers for their action was the Jawara government's inability to overcome the economic crisis facing the country. In Zambia, 1995 was marked by the political resurrection of former President Kenneth Kaunda, who came out of retirement to declare his intention to contest the presidency in the 1996 elections. President Chiluba, whose own popularity had dropped because of widespread corruption charges and a persistent economic downturn, proposed two constitutional amendments transparently designed to eliminate a challenge from his old nemesis. In this strategy, Chiluba was only following the example set by President Bédié of Côte d'Ivoire, who earlier had changed legal codes to prevent Alassane Ouatara (who was half Burkinabe) from being allowed to run.
All across Africa, there are signs that the democratic gains of 1990 to 1994 that we examined in the preceding chapters are eroding. In a few countries, democratization has been reversed as military forces have overthrown elected governments, spelling an end to brief democratic experiments and a return to authoritarian rule.
Chapter 4 - Explaining Political Protest
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Regime transitions are complex processes with multiple phases. Because their intricacies are difficult to capture as a whole, they must be disaggregated for purposes of analysis. This study breaks the concept of regime transition into three parts: we seek to explain first political protest, then political liberalization, and finally democratization. These elements constitute the core aspects of regime transitions – namely, how transitions start, unfold, and end. They are consistent with the phases of regime transition outlined in the previous chapter.
We do not mean to imply that regime transitions invariably start with political protest, always dynamically lead to political liberalization, or inevitably result in democratic outcomes. Each of these elements is a variable. The extent to which there are protests, liberalization, and democratization – indeed, whether there is a transition at all and what form it takes – can be expected to alter from country to country. In the next three chapters, we treat each element of transition as a separate problem to be explained. In this chapter, the dependent variable is political protest.
The outbreak of political protest signals to incumbent leaders that the regime faces a crisis of legitimacy. By taking to the streets to express political concerns, citizens demonstrate that they lack confidence that existing governmental institutions are capable of responding to popular demands. By with-drawing consent to be governed, political protesters proclaim that, although the state may remain dominant, it has lost hegemony.
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Introduction
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In January 1989, students marched out of classes at the national university in Cotonou, the capital city of the West African country of Bénin. They demanded that the government immediately disburse long-delayed scholarships and restore guarantees of public sector employment for university graduates. By July, civil servants and schoolteachers also took to the streets with threats of a general strike to protest having gone without salaries for months.
The government of Benin could not respond to these demands because it was bankrupt. Tax revenues had been slumping for years, capital flight was increasing, and top public officials were embroiled in embarrassing financial scandals. Unhappy with the government's failure to put into effect an economic austerity program, foreign donors withheld disbursements of the budgetary support that was keeping the government afloat. In response to this economic quandary and to the mass street protests, Bénin's military-installed president Mathieu Kérékou began to make political concessions. In August 1989, he invited a prominent human rights activist and legal reformer into the Cabinet; in September, he announced a broad amnesty for political exiles and released some 200 political prisoners.
The protesters were not assuaged, however, escalating their demands to include an end to the ill treatment of political detainees and a clampdown on corruption. Endeavoring to recapture the political initiative, Kérékou surprised his compatriots with a landmark announcement on December 5, 1989, that the People's Revolutionary Party of Bénin (PRPB) would abandon both its ideological commitment to Marxism–Leninism and its monopolistic grip on political affairs.
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Democratic Experiments in Africa
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Between 1989 and 1994, 41 out of 47 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa underwent significant political reform, including in many cases the first competitive elections in a generation. How can this wave of political liberalization be explained? Why did some countries complete a democratic transition, while others could not sustain more than limited political reform and others still suffered authoritarian reversals? What are the long term prospects for democracy in Africa? This study constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of democratic transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using an original data set they assembled, the authors demonstrate that economic and international forces often provided the context in which political liberalization occurred, but cannot by themselves explain the observed outcomes. Instead, the authors develop a political-institutional theoretical framework in which the distinctive political traditions of Africa's neopatrimonial states are shown to have powerfully shaped the regime transitions.
Chapter 2 - Neopatrimonial Rule in Africa
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Throughout this book we ask whether regime transitions in sub-Saharan Africa resemble democratization in other parts of the world. The nature of political authority and its embodiment in political institutions differ in Africa in several significant respects from other world regions that have undergone fundamental change in recent years. We contend that these differences critically affect the dynamics and outcomes of distinctive democratization processes in the sub-Saharan region. This chapter introduces this thesis by briefly reviewing the nature of formal and informal political institutions in postcolonial Africa. We then develop several hypotheses linking these institutions to specific traits of regime transitions in Africa in the early 1990s. We cast the argument comparatively in order to highlight differences among political regimes, both between Africa and the rest of the world but also among African countries themselves.
NEOPATRIMONIAL RULE
The institutional hallmark of politics in the ancien régimes of postcolonial Africa was neopatrimonialism. The term is derived from the concept of patrimonial authority, which Max Weber used to designate the principle of authority in the smallest and most traditional polities. In patrimonial political systems, an individual rules by dint of personal prestige and power; ordinary folk are treated as extensions of the “big man's” household, with no rights or privileges other than those bestowed by the ruler. Authority is entirely personalized, shaped by the ruler's preferences rather than any codified system of laws.
Chapter 3 - Africa's Divergent Transitions, 1990–94
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Commentaries on sub-Saharan regime transitions run the gamut from giddy Afrophilia to gloomy Afropessimism. First assessments were hopeful, seeing the peaceful electoral displacement of authoritarian regimes in countries like Bénin and Zambia as harbingers of “political renewal” and “second liberation.” A critical backlash soon followed in the wake of a series of disputed elections in places like Angola and Kenya. At best analysts pondered thoughtfully about the sustainability of multiparty competition under conditions of ethnic fragmentation and elite corruption or at worst lapsed into apocalyptic warnings of impending civil disorder in the wake of the “stalling … winds of change.”
In our view, analysts should not rush to judgment but instead adopt a detached and broadly comparative view of what is essentially a mixed situation of democratization in Africa. As Peterson suggests, “Democratic development will not be a uniform, linear process.” Even in democratizing countries, transitions unfold with occasional steps back for every step forward. As some countries advance, others regress into authoritarian rule. And some years are better for democratization than others, making long-term predictions from short-term trends risky at best; for example, although there was a preponderance of democratic transitions in Africa in 1991 and 1994, there was a flurry of flawed elections in 1992 and 1993. At any given time, optimists can discover reasons for celebration in some countries, and skeptics will find their worst fears confirmed in others.
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Appendix: The Data Set
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The data set used in this study contains information for all 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa on 99 variables. It is divided into two parts. The first contains information (63 variables) on the characteristics of political regimes and institutions from independence to December 31, 1989. The second part (36 variables) refers to the dynamics of regime transitions for the five-year period from 1990 to 1994.
In order to characterize the old regimes, we drew primarily on established sources. Economic indicators were drawn largely from the World Bank's World Development Report (1991), which reported on the state of African economies in 1989. Social indicators – on characteristics like ethnic or religious fragmentation – were drawn together from a more disparate range of standard compendia. Our principal aim was to add value to the existing stock of knowledge about the political characteristics of authoritarian regimes in Africa. For this reason, we compiled a listing of every national election in Africa from 1960 to 1989, for totals of 106 presidential and 185 parliamentary contests. We assembled indicators on the numbers of political parties, associational groups, and media outlets in 1975 and 1989. And we classified countries by type of political regime, noting the duration of each regime in years, and the number and mode of previous regime transitions for all 47 countries up to 1989.
For the second part of the data set, we generated new data to describe the contemporary round of regime transitions.
Conclusions: Comparative Implications
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The political science literature is replete with arguments about the improbability of democratization in Africa. In this book, we have argued that democratization in Africa is a long-term institution-building project that is fraught with obstacles and constantly threatened with reversal. Nevertheless, in the early 1990s, political actors in more than a dozen African countries overcame objective handicaps in order to complete the minimal steps required for the installation of democratic regimes. Although most of these democratic experiments will fail, a handful of imperfect multiparty electoral systems could well survive.
Sweeping generalizations about Africa as a whole are too often derived from case studies of individual countries. Extrapolating from the case of Somalia, for example, one might be led to the unfortunate conclusion that political openings in Africa are bound to dissolve into clan warfare and collapsed states. Conversely, beginning with Bénin – as we did – one might be tempted to incorrectly project the likelihood of democratic transition onto countries where conditions are actually quite unfavorable. Although we have gained insights from many valuable case studies, we have tried to resist the temptation to overgeneralize from single cases. We have demonstrated, for example – the case of Zaire notwithstanding – that an economic crisis of hyperinflation is not the main catalyst of political reform in Africa. And, despite Kenya's experience with political conditionality, we have shown that political change is rarely driven by an ultimatum from the international donor community.
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Chapter 1 - Approaches to Democratization
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The theoretical literature on democratization offers a wide array of competing explanations about regime change. Analysts have long been fascinated about whether, how, and why democracies are installed and consolidated. The debates generated by these inquiries raise paradigmatic issues that lie at the heart of social and political theory.
The first set of issues concerns the relative impact on political change of structural factors versus individual actions and events. Are regime transitions a function of underlying preconditions at the level of the deep formations of economy and society? Or does political change depend on the preferences and choices of leaders and on their skills at mobilizing resources, counteracting opponents, and taking advantage of opportunities? There is more at stake in this debate than the old dilemma of whether history unfolds deterministically as a result of the tectonic shifts of social forces or capriciously through the deeds of great men. A complete theory of political agency would also attend to the endeavors of ordinary citizens, the interplay between elite and mass actions, and the unintended as well as the planned consequences of political events.
The second debate concerns the degree to which political change is determined by national rather than international forces. The choice is this: Are the trajectories of regime transition best apprehended by paying attention to the separate and distinctive domestic histories of each country? Or should we adopt a more holistic perspective that locates countries as parts of larger international systems, subject to powerful influences from beyond their own borders?
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This book offers a systematic account of political regime changes in Africa, 1990–94. Through it, we hope to reinsert the study of African politics into the mainstream of comparative political analysis, from which it has been marginalized for too long.
In many respects – empirically, theoretically, and methodologically – scholarly studies of democratization have yet to become fully comparative. Empirically, entire world regions are excluded: Whereas most contemporary studies of democratization focus on Latin America or Southern Europe and latterly on Eastern Europe, Africa has received far less attention. In this book, we examine experimental efforts to install democratic regimes in Africa in the early 1990s. Although many of these experiments did not succeed, the opening of authoritarian regimes did mark the return of politics to the continent, a break-through welcomed not only by African citizens eager to exercise long-denied civil rights but also by political scientists anxious for something consequential to study in Africa. At its most modest, this book seeks to fill an empirical gap by chronicling African efforts – in all their initial euphoria and subsequent disillusionment – to displace incompetent dictatorships with accountable forms of government.
At a more ambitious level, we wonder whether widely accepted bodies of theory on the breakdown of authoritarian regimes and the global wave of democratization are useful in interpreting recent political trends in Africa. Although scholars of democracy have devised concepts that travel quite well, African experiences challenge some aspects of regime transition theories.
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