Democratization and Competitive Authoritarianism in Africa [electronic resource] /
Bogaards, Matthijs.editor.
Elischer, Sebastian.editor.
The special issue revisits Levitsky and Way’s seminal study on Competitive Authoritarianism (2010). The contributions by North American, European, and African scholars deepen our understanding of the emergence, trajectories, and outcomes of hybrid regimes across the African continent. The Editors Dr. Matthijs Bogaards is Visiting Professor of Political Science at the Central European University in Budapest. Dr. Sebastian Elischer is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
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Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft; Preface; Competitive authoritarianism in Africa revisited; 1 Democracy, competitive authoritarianism, and autocracy; 2 Competitive authoritarianism: what the critics say; 3 Competitive authoritarianism in Africa; 4 Competitive authoritarianism in Africa revisited; Conclusion; References; Coding competitive authoritarianism; 1 Competitive authoritarianism; 2 Objectives and pertinence of the replication study; 3 Challenges in modeling competitive authoritarianism; 4 The replication exercise; 5 Empirical findings ; 6 Evaluation
7 Aggregation and implications for CA theory8 Further applications; References: country cases ; Benin; Botswana; Burkina Faso; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Cote d'Ivoire; Gabon; Ghana; Guinea-Bissau; Kenya; Lesotho; Madagascar; Malawi; Mali; Mozambique; Niger; Nigeria; Republic of Congo (Brazzaville); Senegal; Tanzania; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe; References; Defining the playing field  ; 1 Introduction; 2 Understanding the playing field ; 3 A new framework studying the playing field ; 4 (Re)coding Zambia under MMD rule; 5 Studying the playing field: a way forward
Appendix 1 Directions for how to assign scores on indicatorsDirections for how to assign importance scores on components; Appendix 2: Using the framework to for measuring the playing field in Zambia under MMD-rule, 1991-2008 ; Sources consulted; References; Leverage and linkage: how regionalism shapes regime dynamics in Africa; Introduction; 1 Regional patterns of regime dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa; 2 Towards a model of leverage and linkage at the regional level; 3 Mandates and hegemons; 4 Assessing regional leverage in West Africa; 5 Regional leverage in Southern Africa
6 Regional linkage in Western and Southern AfricaConclusion; References; From party dominance to competitive authoritarianism? South Africa versus Zimbabwe; Introduction; 1 Party dominance and competitive authoritarianism; 2 Competitive authoritarianism in Zimbabwe; 3 Foundations of and threats to ANC electoral dominance; 4 South Africa: from party dominance to competitive authoritarianism?; Literature; Linkage, leverage and organisational power: Algeria and the Maghreb Spring; Introduction; 1 An overview of linkage, leverage and organisational power
2 Linkage, leverage and organisational power3 Origins and development of the regime; Conclusion; References; The limits of democratization through a regional hegemon: South African linkage and leverage and the skewed playing field in Lesotho party competition   ; 1 Introduction; 2 South African linkage and leverage and processes of democratizationin the southern African region; 2.1 South African democratizing influences and the (competitive) authoritarian regimes in Lesotho, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe
2.2 The mitigated democracy-promoting potential of South African linkage in the southern African region
The special issue revisits Levitsky and Way’s seminal study on Competitive Authoritarianism (2010). The contributions by North American, European, and African scholars deepen our understanding of the emergence, trajectories, and outcomes of hybrid regimes across the African continent. The Editors Dr. Matthijs Bogaards is Visiting Professor of Political Science at the Central European University in Budapest. Dr. Sebastian Elischer is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Comparative politics.
International relations.
Comparative Politics.
International Relations.