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Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy
Comparative African Democratic Politics
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2008
Summary
Since the 1990s, trends in African politics require the realization that the public policy practice and the theoretical analysis of 'democracy and democratization' are becoming increasingly important tenets for understanding the contemporary political science of the region. Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy explains these new political processes and ideas. Author Rita Kiki Edozie identifies factors that Africans have encountered since the foundation of the modern African state and presents a critical analysis of African politics through the lenses of post-colonial discourse by uniquely employing the ideas of democratic theory to guide an analysis of the Continent's democratic development and performance. Edozie presents an intra-regional comparative analysis of democratic politics in Africa in ways that few books on the same subject do for the continent. Her methodology for examining democracy in Africa reveals the dynamism of several country cases and several more regime experiences with democracy encountered from the post-World War II period to the current post-Cold War period.
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Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7618-4141-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7618-4193-7
Publisher
Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
204
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Foreword No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: Re-representing Africa's Third Wave in Comparative Democratic Theory No access
Chapter One. Africa in Democratic Waves: Theoretical Considerations and Issues No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter Two. The Meaning of Democracy in Africa: Ideas in Social Construction No access Pages 15 - 37
Chapter Three. Establishing Modern Democracy: The Second Wave and De-colonization No access Pages 38 - 67
Chapter Four. Africa's Third Wave of Democracy: From Post-World War II "Uhurus" to Post-Cold War "Sopis" No access Pages 68 - 104
Chapter Five. Post-Cold War Pluralist Democracy: Freedom and Human Rights in a Global Democratic Era No access Pages 105 - 127
Chapter Six. Electoral Authoritarians and Delegative Democrats: Reconstructing Democratic Consolidation in Africa No access Pages 128 - 154
Chapter Seven. Democratic Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy: Democracy and Development No access Pages 155 - 184
Conclusion: Predicting the Future of Democracy in Africa No access Pages 185 - 190
