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001 2014029174
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008 140723s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2014029174
020 $a9781137011701 (hardback)
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050 00 $aJQ1879.A795$bP37 2014
082 00 $a324.20967$223
084 $aPOL007000$aPOL009000$aPOL015000$aPOL030000$2bisacsh
245 00 $aParty systems and democracy in Africa /$c[edited by] Renske Doorenspleet, associate professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK, Lia Nijzink, senior researcher, Law, Race and Gender Unit, University of South Africa.
264 1 $aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York, NY :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2014.
300 $axiv, 191 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Do party systems help or hinder democracy in Africa? This collection offers important new insights into the relation between party systems and democracy on the African continent. It presents a comparative analysis of how African party systems influence procedural aspects of democracy such as accountability and government responsiveness and also shows how party systems affect citizens' satisfaction. It paints a vivid picture of the one-party dominant systems in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa and how these impede the deepening of democracy. Drawing lessons from Benin, Ghana and Zambia, it also portrays the fluidity of African party systems and draw attention to the importance of party system change. The insightful contributions show that African party systems affect democracy in ways that are different from the relation between party systems and democracy observed elsewhere"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: -- 1. Do Party Systems Matter for Democracy in Africa?; Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink -- 2. Multi-Party Elections in Africa: For Better or Worse; Matthijs Bogaards -- PART I: ONE-PARTY DOMINANT SYSTEMS -- 3. South Africa: Electoral Dominance, Identity Politics and Democracy; Steven Friedman -- 4 Botswana: Presidential Ambitions, Party Factions and the Durability of a Dominant Party; Christian John Makgala and Shane Mac Giollabhui; -- 5. Namibia: From Liberation to Domination; Henning Melber -- PART II: OTHER PARTY SYSTEMS -- 6. Ghana: The African Exemplar of an Institutionalized Two-Party System?; Cyril Daddieh and George Bob-Milliar -- 7. Benin: A Pulverized Party System in Transition; Rachel Gisselquist -- 8. Zambia: Dominance Won and Lost ; Dan Paget -- PART III: CONCLUSION -- 9. Do Party Systems Help or Hinder Democracy in Africa?; Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink.
650 0 $aPolitical parties$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
651 0 $aAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xPolitics and government$y1960-
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aDoorenspleet, Renske,$d1973-
700 1 $aNijzink, Lia.