The new wave of international authoritarian populism of the 2010s has also arrived in Africa? The Mozambique and Angolan cases

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ID3922802
AutoresNuno Fragoso Vidal (0000-0002-5921-6311, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume24
Fascículo52
Páginas52-76
Data de publicação2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTopoi (Rio de Janeiro (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1518-3319 • E-ISSN: 2237-101X
EditoraFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/2237-101x02405203
OpenAlexW4367330670
SCIELO_PIDS2237-101X2023000100052
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas35

This paper deals with the possible impact of the most recent international authoritarian populist tendencies on sub-Saharan African political systems. Contrary to the main currents of interpretation, this paper argues that we are not in face of a new international influence or role model being locally followed, but in face of the most recent example of a long political-historical path of selective assimilation of international trends to local political systems as structured after independence. We are not witnessing to poor local replicas of the most recent international wave of authoritarian populism of 2010s, but to another selective assimilation of political features to serve the existing and locally dominant systems. Through the analysis of the specific cases of Mozambique and Angola, this paper theoretically and historically discusses the nature of regimes and political systems through a critical approach on the most recent historical/political science discussions of so-called hybrid regimes, combining liberal and illiberal features, that resort to concepts such as illiberal democracies, façade democracies, electoral autocracies, semi-authoritarian states, competitive authoritarian regimes, post-neo-liberal States, or new competitive authoritarian regimes, among others

Authoritarianism · Autocracy · Democracy · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance