Trends in Leadership Succession and Regime Change in African Politics since Independence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2594555 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ladun Anise (University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 507 |
| Publication date | 1974-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/523798 |
| OpenAlex | W2134677156 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
It is the passion for equality which is at the root of sedition.... When one begins with an initial error it is inevitable that one should end badly. —Aristotle Leadership succession and regime change lie at the center of two perennial problems of governance: (1) how to ensure the political continuity of any regime without endangering the political stability of the political community; (2) how to protect both the regime and the political community against the natural disposition of those in power to manipulate their office so that they could extend their terms of office or succeed themselves against the provisions of written or unwritten rules of managing political power and succession rights. There can be little doubt, then, that the political acts that surround leadership succession and regime change constitute a most serious aspect of political life in any society. In all political systems in general, and in African politics in particular, such acts constitute an important index of the development or deterioration of politics. The renewed focus on Africa since the middle 1950s as a subject of political inquiry and theorizing has contributed greatly to the existing body of literature on political development, modernization and related subfields of Comparative Politics. Unfortunately, this rather extensive body of literature has not provided us with a definitive knowledge of the dynamics of social and political change. In this regard, major events in African politics have continued to cast doubts on the validity of many an earlier theoretical formulation and expectation
Biology · Ecological succession · Independence (probability theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Statistics · African cultural and philosophical studies · African history and culture studies · Ecology · International Development and Aid · Law · Mathematics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 1988 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |