TY  - BOOK
AU  - Diamond,Larry Jay
AU  - Plattner,Marc F.
TI  - Democratization in Africa: progress and retreat 
T2  - A Journal of democracy book
SN  - 9780801894831 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - JQ1879.A15 D465 2010
U1  - 320.96 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Baltimore, Md.
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Africa
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1960-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Challenges of a "frontier" region; Richard Joseph --; 2; Presidents untamed; H. Kwasi Prempeh --; 3; Legislatures on the rise?; Joel D. Barkan --; 4; The rule of law versus the big man; Larry Diamond --; 5; The institutionalization of political power in Africa; Daniel N. Posner and Daniel J. Young --; 6; The decline of the African military coup; John F. Clark --; 7; Growth without prosperity in Africa; Peter Lewis --; 8; Formal versus informal institutions in Africa; Michael Bratton --; 9; Nigeria's muddled elections; Rotimi T. Suberu --; 10; Another step forward for Ghana; E. Gyimah-Boadi --; 11; Senegal : the return of personalism; Penda Mbow --; 12; Sierra Leone : a vote for better governance; Christopher Wyrod --; 13; Liberia starts over; Dave Peterson --; 14; Kenya : back from the brink?; Michael Chege --; 15; The crisis in Kenya; Maina Kiai --; 16; Tanzania's missing opposition Barak Hoffman; Lindsay Robinson --; 17; Personalizing power in Uganda; Andrew M. Mwenda --; 18; The remarkable story of Somaliland; Seth Kaplan --; 19; An accidental advance? : South Africa's 2009 elections; Steven Friedman --; 20; The illusion of democracy in Botswana; Kenneth Good --; 21; Zambia : one party in perpetuity?; Kate Baldwin --; 22; Voting for change in the DRC; Herbert F. Weiss --; 23; Angola's facade democracy; Paula Cristina Roque --; 24; Zimbabwe's long agony; Michael Bratton and Eldred Masunungure
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