TY - BOOK ID - 30066787 TI - Turning points in African democracy AU - Mustapha, Abdul Raufu AU - Whitfield, Lindsay PY - 2009 SN - 9781847013170 9781846157738 9781847013163 1847013163 1847013171 9786612988219 1782041559 1846157730 1282988212 PB - Suffolk Boydell & Brewer DB - UniCat KW - Afrique subsaharienne KW - Decentralization in government KW - Democratization KW - DeĢcentralisation administrative KW - DeĢmocratisation KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Politics and government KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Democratic consolidation KW - Democratic transition KW - Political science KW - New democracies KW - Centralization in government KW - Devolution in government KW - Government centralization KW - Government decentralization KW - Government devolution KW - Central-local government relations KW - Federal government KW - Local government KW - Public administration KW - Africa, Black KW - Africa, Subsaharan KW - Africa, Tropical KW - Africa South of the Sahara KW - Black Africa KW - Sub-Sahara Africa KW - Sub-Saharan Africa KW - Subsahara Africa KW - Subsaharan Africa KW - Tropical Africa KW - Political systems KW - Abdul Raufu Mustapha. KW - Africa. KW - African Countries. KW - Danish Institute of International Studies. KW - Democracy in Africa. KW - Democracy. KW - Lindsay Whitfield. KW - Political Changes. KW - University of Oxford. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30066787 AB - Radical changes have taken place in Africa since 1990. What are the realities of these changes? What significant differences have emerged between African countries? What is the future for democracy in the continent? The editors have chosen eleven key countries to provide enlightening comparisons and contrasts to stimulate discussion among students. They have brought together a team of scholars who are actively working in the changing Africa of today. Each chapter is structured around a framing event which defines the experience of democratisation. The editors have provided an overview of the turning points in African politics. They engage with debates on how to study and evaluate democracy in Africa, such as the limits of elections. They identify four major themes with which to examine similarities and divergences as well as to explain change and continuity in what happened in the past. ABDUL RAUFU MUSTAPHA is University Lecturer in African Politics at Queen Elizabeth House and Kirk-Greene Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford; LINDSAY WHITFIELD is a Research Fellow at the Danish Institute of International Studies, Copenhagen. ER -