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The Rise of Multipartyism and Democracy in the Context of Global Change: The Case of Africa - Couverture rigide

Lumumba-Kasongo, Tukumbi

 
9780275960872: The Rise of Multipartyism and Democracy in the Context of Global Change: The Case of Africa
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0275960870 ISBN 13 : 9780275960872
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Lumumba-Kasongo examines those forces that contributed to the fate of multiparty democracy in Africa. The forces include the state, political parties, ethnicity, nationalism, religion, underdevelopment, and the global market.

Multipartyism in Africa is not necessarily democratic. However, the processes toward multipartyism can produce democratic discourses if they can be transformed by popular and social movements. As the author points out, almost all social classes have demanded some form of democracy. Yet the sociological meanings and teleological perspectives of those forms of democracy depend on an individual or group's economic and educational status. The dynamics of the global context, as reflected in the adoption of the structural adjustment programs of the World Bank and the stability programs of the International Monetary Fund, are likely to produce non-democratic conditions in Africa. Lumumba-Kasongo challenges the existing paradigms on democracy and development, so the book is of considerable interest to scholars and policy makers involved with African politics and socio-economic development.

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À propos de l'auteur

TUKUMBI LUMUMBA-KASONGO is Herbert J. Charles and Florence Charles Faegre Professor of Political Science at Wells College, Senior Fellow at the Institute for African Development at Cornell University, Visiting Scholar in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, and Director of CEPARRED. He has taught throughout Africa and the United States and has published extensively on international relations, social movements, and structural adjustments in Africa. He is the author of The Dynamics of Economic and Political Relations Between Africa and Foreign Powers: A Study in International Relations (Praeger, 1998).

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275960870
ISBN 13 
9780275960872
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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