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Abstract
When the third wave of democracy washed across Africa in the early 1990s, leading Africanists openly questioned whether civil liberties, multi-party elections, and representative institutions held any real meaning for ordinary Africans. Many suggested that the reforms that restored political rights and civil liberties, and ushered in multi-party elections, had taken place simply as a function of economic crisis (e.g. Bates 1994), or pressure from international actors such as the International Monetary Fund and World Bank (e.g. Munslow 1993; Young 1993; Nwajiaku 1994). Little attention, in contrast, was paid to the desires of Africans themselves.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Routledge Handbook of Democratization in Africa |
Editors | Gabrielle Lynch, Peter VonDoepp |
Place of Publication | London |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter | 24 |
Pages | 345-363 |
Number of pages | 19 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-1-138-08124-6 |
Publication status | Published - 23 Aug 2019 |
Keywords
- public opinion
- democratic legitimacy
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Afrobarometer
Mattes, R., Gyimah-Boadi, E., Bratton, M., Logan, C., Dulani, B. & Mitullah, W.
14/09/98 → …
Project: Research