DEMOCRATISATION IN AFRICA
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 478-491
ISSN: 0031-2290
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In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Band 46, Heft 4, S. 478-491
ISSN: 0031-2290
In: Peace review: the international quarterly of world peace, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 371-378
ISSN: 1040-2659
Despite renewed opposition from prodemocracy movements, African democracy is in a shambles. Government leaders have simply appropriated the colonial state apparatus to serve their own interests, & the people are still oppressed by the same structures they tried to overthrow in the 1960s. Although some liberalization has occurred -- eg, in Benin, Ghana, & Zambia -- government responses to public agitation have run the spectrum from cooptation to intimidation to divisionary tactics. Changes have been primarily superficial, & deeper problems remain: the repressive, undemocratic state retains its agenda; the same elite manpulates politics; the African economy is a disaster; civil society is ineffective & fragmented; primordialism has increased; elections have been emphasized at the expense of developing democratic institutions; & foreign nations continue to destabilize democracies. Still, democracy can prevail if civil society is strengthened & if prodemocracy movements & new political parties change their strategies. 4 References. E. Munson
In: Praxis international: a philosophical journal, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 18-36
ISSN: 0260-8448
In light of Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action (see IRPS No. 41/88c09222 & 88c09223), an analysis is offered of two opposing phenomena now occurring: fascist, despotic destruction vs radical-/eco-democratic extension of modern democracies. These phenomena, it is suggested, are both realizations of democracy's normative content; discursive solutions for social conflicts should replace the polemic of class struggle. Distinctions between formal & actual democracies are identified, & the coevolution of modern structural potentialities' variants in light of the fall of Stalinism & fascism is reviewed. Specifically modern forms of competition & the coevolution of modern structures were dysfunctional under accepted Marxist-Leninist ideologies. It is proposed that a cultural form of competition take the evolutionary lead, thus controlling the economic forms of competition through radical democratization. 32 References. J. Sadler
In: The Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, S. 355-365
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 517-549
ISSN: 0043-8871
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In: Democratization, Band 15, Heft 4, S. 733-749
ISSN: 1743-890X
In: Achieving Democracy : Democratization in Theory and Practice
Cover -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Foreword to the 2020 Edition -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Editors' Preface -- Introduction: From Totalitarianism to Democracy in Malawi -- Part One -- Political and Economic Dimensions -- 1. The Mwanza Trial as a Search for a Usable Malawian Past -- The Mwanza Trial from the Government's Perspective -- MCP and the Mwanza Murders -- The Events: Who was Conspiring? -- Conclusion -- 2. Democracy, Ethnicity, and Regionalism: The Malawian Experience, 1992-1996 -- Concepts: Their Definition and Relevance
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In: European political science: EPS, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 436-439
ISSN: 1682-0983
In: European political science: EPS ; serving the political science community ; a journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 436-439
ISSN: 1680-4333
In: Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa, S. 78-104
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 125-126
ISSN: 1354-0688
In: International affairs, Band 77, Heft 1, S. 229-230
ISSN: 0020-5850