Reconstructing the third wave of democracy : comparative african democratic politics / Rita Kiki Edozie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edozie, Rita Kiki.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Africa.

Democracy.

Africa.

Africa--Politics and government--1960-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxv, 204 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Re-representing Africa's Third Wave in Comparative Democratic Theory xi

1 Africa in Democratic Waves: Theoretical Considerations and Issues 1

2 The Meaning of Democracy in Africa: Ideas in Social Construction 15

3 Establishing Modern Democracy: The Global Second Wave and De-colonization 38

4 Africa's Third Wave of Democracy: From Post-World War II "Uhurus" to Post-Cold War "Sopis" 68

5 Post-Cold War Pluralist Democracy: Freedom and Human Rights in a Global Democratic Era 105

6 Electoral Authoritarians and Delegative Democrats: Reconstructing Democratic Consolidation in Africa 128

7 Democratic Capitalism and the Crisis of Democracy: Democracy and Development 155

Conclusion: Predicting the Future for Democracy in Africa 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index.

ISBN:

0761841423

9780761841425

OCLC:

256932030