Reconstructing the third wave of democracy comparative African democratic politics /

• Main Author: Edozie, Rita Kiki.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham : University Press Of America, c2009.
• Subjects: Democracy > Africa.; POLITICAL SCIENCE > General. > Political Process; Africa > Politics and government > 1960-; Electronic books.
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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...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Re-representing Africa's Third Wave in Comparative Democratic Theory; Chapter One. Africa in Democratic Waves: Theoretical Considerations and Issues; Chapter Two. The Meaning of Democracy in Africa: Ideas in Social Construction; Chapter Three. Establishing Modern Democracy: The Second Wave and De-colonization; Chapter Four. Africa's Third Wave of Democracy: From Post-World War II "Uhurus" to Post-Cold War "Sopis"; Chapter Five. Post-Cold War Pluralist Democracy: Freedom and Human Rights in a Global Democratic Era.