Nic Cheeseman

Democracy in Africa

Successes, Failures, and the Struggle for Political Reform

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of Africa's history of democracy, grappling with important questions facing Africa today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780521138420
• ISBN-10: 0521138426
• Artikelnr.: 41612415

Autorenporträt

Nic Cheeseman is Associate Professor of African Politics of the African Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. He is the coeditor of the collections Our Turn to Eat (2010) and The Handbook of African Politics (2013). He is also the editor of the journal African Affairs, a member of the advisory board of the UNICEF Chair on Communication Research (Africa) and an advisor to, and writer for, Kofi Annan's African Progress Panel.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Fragments of democracy
2. Cultures of resistance
3. The second liberation
4. Exporting elections
5. Subverting democracy
6. The democratic dividend
Conclusion.