Democracy and elections in Africa
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| التنسيق: | الكتروني كتاب الكتروني |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2006.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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جدول المحتويات:
- Introduction. The role of elections ; Why Africa? ; On regimes ; On elections and democracy ; Preindependence and postindependence elections in African nations ; Contemporary Africa's track record ; Outline of the book
- On democracy and elections. Making a conceptual choice ; Defining democracy ; Operationalizing democratic qualities of elections ; Data collection and processing
- Elections in Africa over time. Frequency and number of elections ; The democratic qualities, on average ; Democratic qualities of elections over time ; Conclusions
- The self-reinforcing power of elections. Going from bad to worse ; First, second, third, fourth and later elections ; A panel-group comparison ; Conclusions
- The causal effects of elections. Democratic qualities in society ; A missing factor of democratization ; Hypotheses and causal links
- Democratization by elections? Elections are associated with civil liberties ; Analyzing by countries ; Conclusions
- Comparative perspectives and reflections. The transition paradigm ; Corruption and democratization ; Stateness and social citizenship ; Lessons on consolidation ; Policy implications ; The power of elections in unfavorable conditions.