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Democracy, Africa’s Way
Political Power(resides with the people)
Participation
Competition
Liberty
Voting
Assembly
Lobbying
Parties
Separation of Powers
Speech
Civil Society
Executive
Legislative
Judiciary Judicial Review
Bicameral
Unicameral
Running forOffice
Concrete Abstract
Parliamentary
Presidential
Mixed
Tenets Examples Variations
Liberal Democracy
Guillermo O’Donnell and Philippe Schmitter (1986) Transitions from Authoritarian Rule
“Democratization (…) refers to the processes whereby the rules and proceduresof citizenship are either applied to political institutions previously governed byother principles (…), or expanded to include persons not previously enjoying suchrights and obligations (…), or extended to cover issues and institutions notpreviously subject to citizen participation (…).” (p. 8)
Liberalization Transition Consolidation
Question: Who (not just what) is behind each step?
Staffan Lindberg
“Donorization” = “No democracy, no money”
Liberalization Transition Consolidation
Reversal(by means of a coup or elections)
Democracy
Quasi-Democracy
Mauritius, Ghana, Botswana, So. Africa
Nigeria, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Kenya Authoritarianism
Reversal(by means of a coup or elections)
2008-2009: (Guinea Bissau), Guinea, Madagascar, Mauritania, Niger.
2012: Mali
http://www.freedomhouse.org/regions/sub-saharan-africa
Mwai Kibaki & Raila Odinga (Kenya)
Mugabe & Tsvangirai (Zimbabwe)Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (Liberia)
Nelson Mandela Jacob Zuma (So. Africa)
Abdoulaye Wade & Macky Sall (Senegal)
Kufuor (Ghana)
Atta Mills
Laurent Gbagbo Alassane Ouattara
Paul Kagame (Rwanda)
Ernest Bai Koroma (Sierra Leone)
John Dramani Mahama