Democratization in Africa: progress and retreat

Second edition of a book first published in 1999, chosen from recent articles in the ‘Journal of Democracy’. The Introduction is by L. Diamond. The general contributions are challenges to Subsaharan Africa as a ‘frontier’ region (R. Joseph); contemporary presidents (H.K. Prempeh); development of legislatures (J.D. Barkan); patrons and clients (L. Diamond); institutionalization of power politics (D.N. Posner, D.J. Young); decline in military coups (J.F. Clark); growth without prosperity (P. Lewis); and formal and informal institutions (M. Bratton). The more specific articles cover elections in Nigeria (R.T. Suberu); recent politics in Ghana (E. Gyimah-Boadi); personalism in Senegal (P. Mbow); development in Sierra Leone (C. Wyrod); new beginnings in Liberia (D. Peterson); instability in Kenya (M. Chege); crisis in Kenya (M. Kiai); missing opposition in Tanzania (B. Hoffman, L. Robinson); personalized power in Uganda (A.M. Mwenda); Somalia and Somaliland (S. Kaplan); 2009 elections in South Africa (S. Friedman); illusionary democracy in Botswana (K. Good); perpetual one party in Zambia? (K. Baldwin); 2006 elections in Democratic Republic of Congo (H.F. Weiss); faade democracy in Angola (P.C. Roque); and the agony of Zimbabwe (M. Bratton, E. Masunungure). [ASC Leiden abstract]