Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy
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Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy

Comparative African Democratic Politics

  1. 230 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy

Comparative African Democratic Politics

About this book

Since the 1990s, trends in African politics require the realization that the public policy practice and the theoretical analysis of 'democracy and democratization' are becoming increasingly important tenets for understanding the contemporary political science of the region. Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy explains these new political processes and ideas. Author Rita Kiki Edozie identifies factors that Africans have encountered since the foundation of the modern African state and presents a critical analysis of African politics through the lenses of post-colonial discourse by uniquely employing the ideas of democratic theory to guide an analysis of the Continent's democratic development and performance. Edozie presents an intra-regional comparative analysis of democratic politics in Africa in ways that few books on the same subject do for the continent. Her methodology for examining democracy in Africa reveals the dynamism of several country cases and several more regime experiences with democracy encountered from the post-World War II period to the current post-Cold War period.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Re-representing Africa's Third Wave in Comparative Democratic Theory
  5. Chapter One. Africa in Democratic Waves: Theoretical Considerations and Issues
  6. Chapter Two. The Meaning of Democracy in Africa: Ideas in Social Construction
  7. Chapter Three. Establishing Modern Democracy: The Second Wave and De-colonization
  8. Chapter Four. Africa's Third Wave of Democracy: From Post-World War II "Uhurus" to Post-Cold War "Sopis"
  9. Chapter Five. Post-Cold War Pluralist Democracy: Freedom and Human Rights in a Global Democratic Era
  10. Chapter Six. Electoral Authoritarians and Delegative Democrats: Reconstructing Democratic Consolidation in Africa
  11. Chapter Seven. Democratic Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy: Democracy and Development
  12. Conclusion: Predicting the Future of Democracy in Africa
  13. Appendix: Acronyms
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index