Ofwaves Andripples
Democracy and Political Change in Africa in the 1990s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232987 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clark C Gibson (Department of Political Science, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0521, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 201-221 |
| Publication date | 2002-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.polisci.5.111401.151327 |
| OpenAlex | W2127799452 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 122 |
This chapter reviews the literature concerned with explaining recent political change in Africa. After recounting some of the political transformations on the continent, it explores the economic and political factors most often invoked by scholars to account for these changes. The chapter concludes with a call for more comparative work, as well as more precise measures, models, and tests
Democracy · Political change · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regime change · Sociology · International Development and Aid · Law · Political Conflict and Governance
De Civiele Maatschappij
Democracy, poverty and civil society in Mozambique
What Affects the Strength of Partisan Identity in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Democracy and the press
Did Aid Promote Democracy in Africa? The Role of Technical Assistance in Africa’s Transitions
Opposition parties and democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa
Democratization in Africa 1990–2010
Regime Change and Ethnic Cleavages in Africa
Government Aids Policies and Public Opinion in Africa
Democracy and the politics of power alternation in Africa
Africa works
Authoritarianism, democracy, and adjustment
Economic change and political liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa and the disciplines
Democracy and development in Africa
Capitalist development and democracy
Toward Governance in Africa
Governance and the Study of Politics
The Precarious Balance
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979–1999
Paths toward Democracy
Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania
Collapsed States
The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation
Civil society in Africa
Political man
Democracy and the Market
Africa and the International System
Civil Society and the State in Africa
Governance and Politics in Africa
Economic Crisis and Policy Choice
Democracy and Development
The direct funding of Southern NGOs by donors
The Third Wave of Democratization in Africa
The Reconfiguration of Power in Late Twentieth-Century Africa
Bringing the State Back In
The Regime Question
Prospects for Civil Society in China
Capitalist Development and Democracy
The Structural Adjustment of Politics in Africa
National conferences and democratization in Francophone Africa 1
Civil Society
Predatory Rule
Multiparty Democracy and Political Change
Civil Society and Democracy in Africa
Electoral Systems and Democratization in Southern Africa
Democratization in Africa
Developing Democracy
Neopatrimonial Regimes and Political Transitions in Africa
The state, structural adjustment and good government in Africa
Making civil society work, promoting democratic development
The structural adjustment of politics in Africa
Whose Democracy? Bourgeois versus popular democracy
Strengthening Civil Society in Africa
Hemmed In
Popular Struggles for Democracy in Africa
Africa's New Leaders
Democratic Experiments in Africa
Africa and the New World Order
An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics
Personal Rule in Black Africa
In Search of Civil Society
Regime change in Africa
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Winners Take All
Economic Reform and Political Transition in Africa The Quest for a Politics of Development
African Ambiguities
The Paradox of Civil Society
African Ambiguities
Africa
African Ambiguities
Eight Problems with African Politics
Democracy’s Future
Africa
Democracy and economy in Africa
The continuing case for demo‐optimism in Africa
Democracy assistance
The Relationship between Political and Economic Reform in Africa
Africa's External Economic Relations
Observing Multiparty Elections in Africa
The Ghanaian Elections of 1992
Beyond the State
Rethinking Civil Society
Civil Society and Democracy in Africa
Are Things Falling Apart? The Military and the Crisis of Democratisation in Nigeria
The unique case of African democracy
The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa
Structural Adjustment and Structural Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
A Few Considerations on Democracy in Africa
Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies
A Decade of Democracy in Africa
Citizen and Subject
The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa
The State and Democracy in Africa
Democracy in Africa
Africa Works
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2015 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |