Party systems and democracy in Africa /

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Imprint:Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Description:xiv, 191 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
Subject:Political parties -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Democracy -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National.
Democracy.
Political parties.
Political science.
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960-
Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10141795
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Other authors / contributors:Doorenspleet, Renske, 1973- editor.
Nijzink, Lia, editor.
ISBN:9781137011701
113701170X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"Do party systems help or hinder democracy in Africa? This collection offers important new insights into the relation between party systems and democracy on the African continent. It presents a comparative analysis of how African party systems influence procedural aspects of democracy such as accountability and government responsiveness and also shows how party systems affect citizens' satisfaction. It paints a vivid picture of the one-party dominant systems in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa and how these impede the deepening of democracy. Drawing lessons from Benin, Ghana and Zambia, it also portrays the fluidity of African party systems and draw attention to the importance of party system change. The insightful contributions show that African party systems affect democracy in ways that are different from the relation between party systems and democracy observed elsewhere"--

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