Party Systems and Democracy in Africa [electronic resource] /
Doorenspleet, R.editor.
Nijzink, L.editor.
Do party systems help or hinder democracy in Africa? Drawing lessons from different types of party systems in six African countries, this volume shows that party systems affect democracy in Africa in ways that are unexpectedly different from the relation between party systems and democracy observed elsewhere.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Do Party Systems Matter for Democracy in Africa?; 2 Multiparty Elections in Africa: For Better or Worse; Part I: One-Party-Dominant Systems; 3 South Africa: Electoral Dominance, Identity Politics and Democracy; 4 Botswana: Presidential Ambitions, Party Factions and the Durability of a Dominant Party; 5 Namibia: From Liberation to Domination; Part II: Other Party Systems; 6 Ghana: The African Exemplar of an Institutionalized Two-Party System?
7 Benin: A Pulverized Party System in Transition8 Zambia: Dominance Won and Lost; Part III: Conclusion; 9 Do Party Systems Help or Hinder Democracy in Africa?; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Do party systems help or hinder democracy in Africa? Drawing lessons from different types of party systems in six African countries, this volume shows that party systems affect democracy in Africa in ways that are unexpectedly different from the relation between party systems and democracy observed elsewhere.
Africa-Politics and government.
Democracy.
World politics.
Comparative politics.
Political science.
United States-Politics and government.
African Politics.
Democracy.
Political History.
Comparative Politics.
Political Science.
US Politics.