TY - BOOK AU - Bates,Robert H. AU - Bauer,Gretchen AU - Beck,Linda J. AU - Bratton,Michael AU - Brautigam,Deborah AU - Gyimah-Boadi,E. AU - Harbeson,John W AU - Herbst,Jeffrey AU - Hyden,Goran AU - Joseph,Richard AU - Longman,Timothy AU - Magnusson,Bruce A. AU - Mkandawire,Thandika AU - Olowu,Dele AU - Ottaway,Marina AU - Posner,Daniel N. AU - Rothchild,Donald AU - Sklar,Richard L. AU - Taylor,Scott D. AU - Van De Walle,Nicolas AU - Young,Crawford TI - State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa SN - 9781555877996 PY - 2023///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; PART I Overview --; 1 State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa --; 2 The Third Wave of Democratization in Africa: Ambiguities and Contradictions --; 3 Rethinking Democratic Transitions: Lessons from Eastern and Southern Africa --; 4 The Reconfiguration of Power in Late Twentieth-Century Africa --; PART 2 The Political Economy of Democratization --; 5 The Economic Bases of Democratization --; 6 Globalization and African Democracy --; 7 Crisis Management and the Making of "Choiceless Democracies" --; 8 The "Mauritius Miracle": Democracy, Institutions, and Economic Policy --; PART 3 Political Restructuring and Regime Politics --; 9 African Polities: The Next Generation --; 10 Governance and the Reconstitution of Political Order --; 11 Senegal's Enlarged Presidential Majority: Deepening Democracy or Detour? --; 12 Testing Democracy in Benin: Experiments in Institutional Reform --; 13 Race, Class, and Neopatrimonialism in Zimbabwe --; 14 The Role of Citizenship Laws in Multiethnic Societies: Evidence from Africa --; 15 Local Governance, Democracy, and Development --; PART 4 Ethnicity, Conflict, and Insecurity --; 16 Ethnic Politics in Africa: Change and Continuity --; 17 Ethnic Insecurity, Peace Agreements, and State Building --; 18 State, Civil Society, and Genocide in Rwanda --; 19 Autocracy, Violence, and Ethnomilitary Rule in Nigeria --; PART 5 Elections and Democratization --; 20 A First Look at Second Elections in Africa, with Illustrations from Zambia --; 21 Ghana: The Challenges of Consolidating Democracy --; 22 Challenges to Democratic Consolidation in Namibia --; PART 6 Conclusion --; 23 State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa: The Complex Process of Renewal --; ABBREVIATIONS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS --; INDEX --; ABOUT THE BOOK; restricted access N2 - This seminal volume explores the most important dimensions of state formation and erosion, social conflict, and the gains and setbacks in democratization in contemporary Africa. The results of nearly a decade of research, reflection, and collegial interaction, the collection delineates the dominant patterns of political restructuring since the upheavals of the early 1990s UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685851828 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685851828 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685851828/original ER -