Comprendre les partis et les systèmes de partis africains: entre modèles et recherches empiriques
In: La politique africaine, Heft 104, S. 18-37
ISSN: 0244-7827
The introduction of democratic reforms in the 1990s sparked a resurgence of multipartism in Africa, whichentailed a discontinuity in both the continent's politics and in its study. Awave of new analyses was producedthat were largely based on established political science. What results and advances were obtained ? What arethe key issues raised by the return of party pluralism in Africa ? What is the utility of existing models, theories and approaches for its understanding ? While recent research efforts unquestionably advanced ourknowledge of the changing politics of the continent, neither side of the balance - the elaboration of theoreticalframeworks and the detail of empirical knowledge - has achieved adequate levels of development as yet. (Polit afr/GIGA)