Africa, the lost decades
By: by Samuel Decalo
Publisher: Florida Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781890357320
Subjects: Politics and government; Coups d'état; Civil-military relations; Military government; Democracy; Political activity; Armed Forces
Table of contents: title: Military coups and military regimes in Africa; title: Praetorianism, corporate grievances and idiosyncratic factors in African military hierarchies; title: African personal dictatorships; title: Modalities of civil-military stability in Africa; title: Regionalism, political decay, and civil strife in Chad; title: The morphology of radical African military rule in Africa; title: Ideological rhetoric and scientific socialism in Benin and Congo/Brazzaville; title: Socio-economic constraints on radical action in the People's Republic of Congo; title: The process, prospects, and constraints of democratization in Africa; title: The future of participatory democracy in Africa; title: Coups and military regimes 1974-2004: has anything 325 really changed?