Democracy, Liberty and Montesquieu

Without appropriate institutional checks multiparty democracy can rekindle violent conflicts rather than help to resolve them. The absolutism of ‘imperial presidents’ is at the root of many of Africa's civil wars and the restoration of this institution in post?conflict states will not help them find security for their citizens. Following Montesquieu, I argue that ‘liberty’, in the form of checks on executive power, must accompany or precede multiparty democracy in post?conflict reconstruction

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• Democracy and Elections in Africa

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• At War's End

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• Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

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• Constructing social theories

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• Creating Political Order

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• From Voting to Violence

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• Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

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• The Trouble with the Congo

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• Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict

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• Markets and States in Tropical Africa

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• The Cultural Particularity of Liberal Democracy

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• The Democracy Barometers (Part I)

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• Exchange

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• Space Matters

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• Wars do end! Changing patterns of political violence in sub-Saharan Africa

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• What Does the Somali Experience Teach Us about the Social Contract and the State

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• Constructing Social Theories

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