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Contending Political Paradigms in Africa: Rationality and the Politics of Democratization in Kenya and Zambia (African...
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by Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 245 pages
Published by: RoutledgeEdition: 1st Edition July 19, 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0415975883
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0415975889
Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Description
The book focuses on the politics of democratization in Africa, especially the strategic choices of the political elite, both incumbent and opposition within the context of transition politics. The decade 1990- 2000 saw a total of 78 top leadership elections involving 43 of the 48 sub-Saharan African countries. Of these elections, only 27% led to regime change. Yet even where regime change occurred, authoritarianism persisted. The objective of the book is to analyze and explain this dual paradox of limited change of regime and persistent authoritarianism in the face of democratization. Its central thesis is that this eventuality is a function of the strategic environment of political engagement, which was not reshaped fundamentally to enable the emergence of a new mode of politics.
Whereas the book focuses on Kenya and Zambia, it draws examples from a cross-section of African countries and its conclusions are applicable to most African countries and other democratizing countries across the world. The significance of the book is that it eschews country-specific analysis and employs the comparative approach in looking at the social struggles for democracy in Africa. Its treatment of the rise of authoritarianism and the democratic counter-forces as well as the juxtaposition of "demo-pessimists" and "demoptimists" in Africanist scholarship is particularly innovative and cogently illuminating.
About The Author
Ph.D. in Public and International Affairs, currently lecturer in political science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Previously taught at the University of Nairobi, Kenya and Northeastern University, Boston. Most relevant publications include "Civil Society and African Democratization: The Dynamics of External Forces," Estudios de Asia y Africa, Mexico, 2004; "Ethnonationalism and State Integrity in Africa," Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, 2003; and " Aristocratic Democracy or Democratic Aristocracy?" Nigerian Journal of International Affairs, 2002.
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