Democratization and competitive authoritarianism in Africa

Bogaards, Matthijs, (editor.). Elischer, Sebastian, 1979- (editor.).

Summary: The special issue revisits Levitsky and Way's seminal study on Competitive Authoritarianism (2010). The contributions by North American, European, and African scholars deepen our understanding of the emergence, trajectories, and outcomes of hybrid regimes across the African continent. The Editors Dr. Matthijs Bogaards is Visiting Professor of Political Science at the Central European University in Budapest. Dr. Sebastian Elischer is Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Record details

ISBN: 3658092157
ISBN: 9783658092153
ISBN: 3658092165
ISBN: 9783658092160
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Wiesbaden : Springer VS, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	2 Linkage, leverage and organisational power3 Origins and development of the regime; Conclusion; References; The limits of democratization through a regional hegemon: South African linkage and leverage and the skewed playing field in Lesotho party competition ; 1 Introduction; 2 South African linkage and leverage and processes of democratizationin the southern African region; 2.1 South African democratizing influences and the (competitive) authoritarian regimes in Lesotho, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 23, 2016).