Regime survival in the Gambia and Sierra Leone :

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" Regime survival in the Gambia and Sierra Leone : "
Vidler, Elizabeth

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	1092660
Doc. No	:	TLets244465
Main Entry	:	Vidler, Elizabeth
Title & Author	:	Regime survival in the Gambia and Sierra Leone :\ Vidler, Elizabeth
College	:	Newcastle University
Date	:	1998
student score	:	1998
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Abstract	:	The People's Progressive Party of The Gambia and the All People's Congress of Sierra Leone provide two outstanding examples of regime survival. They form part of a select group of African states which, for many years, escaped the cycle of coup and counter-coup seen elsewhere on the continent. Africanist political scientists have neglected the phenomenon of political survival, concentrating instead on accounting for the frequency of military intervention. This study goes some way to redressing the imbalance. It explains the importance of studying survival and assesses the comparability of The Gambia and Sierra Leone. Despite the absence of an overarching theory of survival, elements of the conceptual literature (including the theory of personal rule, work undertaken on civilian control of the military, elections and international relations) provide a theoretical framework.
Subject	:	Political science
Added Entry	:	Newcastle University