Joseph Takougang, Milton Krieger

African State And Society In The 1990s

Cameroon's Political Crossroads

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Produktbeschreibung

African State and Society in the 1990s is the first comprehensive English-language book to appear on Cameroon's political events since 1989. Designed for academic and policy studies readers, it covers developments from the 1960s to the present as background for an analysis of the continuing conflict since 1990 between the regime and political opposition over democratization. Based on extensive research in Cameroon between 1989 and 1995 in the form of interviews, independent press articles, and major political parties' writings, African State and Society in the 1990s details political confrontations?evolving from bullets to ballots?in the context of a sharply declining economy and a society wrought with ethnic, linguistic, and constitutional tensions. The authors show how the competitive stakes rise as a previously effective political class faces unsubdued challenges to its hegemony over major enterprises. The uncertainty is heightened by the fact that no coherent alliance or potentially successor group has yet emerged from the opposition forces, which now operate across Cameroon's social landscape.The book's analysis of the disarray raises hard questions about whether the nation-state can still serve as a model of stability. The national elections in 1997 make the book particularly timely as a specific case study?applicable to Africa at large?that gives insights into the chances for successful resolution of the continent's volatile political conflicts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9780813338958
• ISBN-10: 0813338956
• Artikelnr.: 21620565

Autorenporträt

Joseph Takougang is associate professor in the Department of African- American Studies at the University of Cincinnati and Milton Krieger is a professor in the Department of Liberal Studies at Western Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Preface: The Research Setting
Methodology
and Theory
Introduction: Cameroon's State and Society in African Context A Metaphor for Africa in the 1990s
Cameroon in Africa
1960s-1990s: A Synopsis
Scholarship on the African and Cameroon State
State-Civil Society Scholarship in the 1990s
The Cameroon Scholarship
The Questions Ahead
Ahidjo and the Single-Party State
1958-1982
The Emergence of Ahmadou Ahidjo
The Years of Trial
1958-1962
Creating a Single-Party State
1962-1966
From Single Party to United Republic
1966-1972
Ahidjo's Presidential Monarchy
1972-1982
Biya's Early Presidency
1982-1986
From Ahidjo to Biya: The Transfer of Power
1982
Disputed Succession and Legacy: Ahidjo and Biya
1983-1984
The New Deal: Aspiration
Compromise
and Reality
The State Under Pressure
1986-1990
Failed Promises and the Illusion of Reforms
Cameroon's Declining Economy
Global Politics and Domestic Demands for Reform
Crisis Years
1991-1992
The Press
Opposition Challenge and Regime Response to Mid-1991
Villes Mortes/Ghost Towns
Mid-Late 1991
Political Parties and Mounting Tensions
The Balance of Forces
Late 1991
Legislative Electoral Test
Early 1992
Presidential Electoral Test
Late 1992
Impasse
1993-1997 Party and Institutional Politics: The Early 1993 Profile
Regional and Ethnic Politics
1993-1997: Anglophones
Regional and Ethnic Politics
1993-1997: The North
Regional and Ethnic Politics Miscellany
1993-1997
Constitutional Debate and Action
Institutional
Electoral
and Party Politics
1995-1997
Cameroon and the Prospects for Democratization
Disarray in the Political Class: Principals and Auxiliaries
An Alternative Political Class?
Emergent Social Experience
Formations
and Alignments
Foreign Factors
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index