Can Democracy Help the African States to Cement Their Multiethnic Societies?

David Bigman

Chapter 5.2 in Poverty, Hunger, and Democracy in Africa, 2011, pp 294-309 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In his famous and award-winning book entitled The Third wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century (1991), Samuel Huntington analyzed and evaluated the wave of democratization that took place between 1974 and 1990, which he saw as the most important global political development of the late twentieth century. Africa was the only continent that went against this wave. Nearly all the new countries that became independent between 1956 and 1970 became authoritarian shortly after independence, most after military coups. Botswana was the only African country that consistently maintained a democratic regime.

Keywords: African Country; African State; Donor Country; Sectarian Group; Military Coup (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230248489_12

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