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No-Party Democracy? : Ugandan Politics in Comparative Perspective / Giovanni Carbone.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (259 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781626371170
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.096761 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 No-Party Democracy -- 2 Building a No-Party State in Uganda -- 3 The Political Economy of Support for the New Regime -- 4 Museveni’s Political Trajectory -- 5 The Movement: A Partisan Organization in Disguise -- 6 The State of the Old Parties in a No-Party State -- 7 The Electoral Politics of No-Partyism -- 8 The Parliamentary Politics of No-Partyism -- 9 The Demise of a Democratic Model -- List of Acronyms -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: Are political parties an essential element of democracy? Or can a no-party system constitute a viable democratic alternative? Giovanni Carbone examines the politics of Museveni’s Uganda to illustrate the achievements, contradictions, and limitations of participatory politics in the absence of partisan organizations. At a time when multiparty reforms were sweeping the globe, Uganda opted for a controversial, no-party democratic model. The country’s politics over the past two decades thus provide the perfect opportunity for addressing the many questions—theoretical, empirical, and comparative—that the notion of a no-party system of elected government raises. Carbone’s analysis of how a no-party electoral regime actually works (or doesn’t) in Uganda fills a gap in both democracy studies and the study of African politics.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 No-Party Democracy -- 2 Building a No-Party State in Uganda -- 3 The Political Economy of Support for the New Regime -- 4 Museveni’s Political Trajectory -- 5 The Movement: A Partisan Organization in Disguise -- 6 The State of the Old Parties in a No-Party State -- 7 The Electoral Politics of No-Partyism -- 8 The Parliamentary Politics of No-Partyism -- 9 The Demise of a Democratic Model -- List of Acronyms -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Book

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Are political parties an essential element of democracy? Or can a no-party system constitute a viable democratic alternative? Giovanni Carbone examines the politics of Museveni’s Uganda to illustrate the achievements, contradictions, and limitations of participatory politics in the absence of partisan organizations. At a time when multiparty reforms were sweeping the globe, Uganda opted for a controversial, no-party democratic model. The country’s politics over the past two decades thus provide the perfect opportunity for addressing the many questions—theoretical, empirical, and comparative—that the notion of a no-party system of elected government raises. Carbone’s analysis of how a no-party electoral regime actually works (or doesn’t) in Uganda fills a gap in both democracy studies and the study of African politics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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