Towards Popular Participation in Botswana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4250486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth Good (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-77 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Modern African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-278X • E-ISSN: 1469-7777 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022278x00055208 |
| OpenAlex | W2112622965 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 16 |
Despitea competitive party system and regular free-and-fair elections, Botswana's polity has been characterised for almost 30 years by considerable authoritarianism focused on the extensive powers of the Presidency and based upon a hierarchical and highly inequitable society.1But pressures have recently arisen within the country for more openness, participation, and equality, and their growing effects were clearly evident in the October 1994 elections and in the widespread disturbances soon after
Authoritarianism · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Openness to experience · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Presidency · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · South African History and Culture
Democracy Rediscovered
Syndromes of Corruption
Electoral Systems and Democratization in Southern Africa
Biodiversity and the Military in Botswana
Syndromes of Corruption
Globalization and the reinvention of Andean tradition
Weak civil society in a hard state
Decentralization and development in Ghana's Fourth Republic
Rethinking Botswana's Economic Diversification Policy
Institutional Legitimacy in State–Market Partnership
Gaborone
A departure from the past? Extension workers and participatory rural development
Democracy and development in Botswana
They Cut Segametsi Into Parts
Ethnicity and participatory development methods in Botswana
The limits of the ‘African Miracle’
Do spoilers make a difference? Instrumental manipulation of political parties in an electoral authoritarian regime, the case of Russia
Enduring elite democracy in Botswana
The political implications of the 4 October 1997 referendum for Botswana
Botswana
Disappearing youth
Rethinking Patrimonialism and Neopatrimonialism in Africa
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,79 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2022 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |