A Decade of Democracy in Africa

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" A Decade of Democracy in Africa "
Stephen Ndegwa

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1071505
Doc. No	:	LA115134
Call No	:	‭10.1163/156852101300143064‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Stephen Ndegwa
Title & Author	:	A Decade of Democracy in Africa [Article]\ Stephen Ndegwa
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Asian and African Studies
Date	:	2001
Volume/ Issue Number	:	36/1
Page No	:	1–16
Abstract	:	This paper offers a broad retrospective on the experience of democracy in Africa over the last decade. It advances five major arguments to explain why the democractic experiment has had such a checkered history. It is argued that in order to gauge the pace and content of democratization, scholars need to move beyond the preoccupation with events in the political and legal spaces (i.e., elections and constitutions) by including a focus on issues such as changing social norms, generational change, and class and gender issues. This paper offers a broad retrospective on the experience of democracy in Africa over the last decade. It advances five major arguments to explain why the democractic experiment has had such a checkered history. It is argued that in order to gauge the pace and content of democratization, scholars need to move beyond the preoccupation with events in the political and legal spaces (i.e., elections and constitutions) by including a focus on issues such as changing social norms, generational change, and class and gender issues.
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/156852101300143064‬