Date: 2006
Type: Book
Transnational mobilization and domestic regime change : Africa in comparative perspective
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
SCHMITZ, Hans Peter, Transnational mobilization and domestic regime change : Africa in comparative perspective, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
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Africa represents the next frontier of the transnational politics of democratization. Recent efforts to promote human rights and democracy have yielded a mixed record of success. A comparison of regime change in Kenya and Uganda reveals how principled interventions have unintentional adverse effects on the democratic reform process.
Table of Contents:
-- Introduction
-- Transnational dimensions of democratization
-- From repression to democratic reforms in Kenya and Uganda
-- Successful challenges to authoritarian rule
-- Diverging paths of regime change : electoralist and participatory reforms
-- How transnational activism undermines democratization
-- The limits of multipartyism
-- Conclusions : transnational mobilization beyond multiparty rule
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/47946
Full-text via DOI: 10.1057/9780230505254
ISBN: 9780230505254; 9781349540389
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Initial version: http://hdl.handle.net/1814/5379
Version: Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 1999