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Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy: Comparative African Democratic Politics - Softcover

Edozie, Rita Kiki

 
9780761841425: Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy: Comparative African Democratic Politics
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761841423 ISBN 13: 9780761841425
Publisher: University Press Of America, 2008

Synopsis

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 the Third Wave of Democracy explains these new political processes and ideas. Author Rita Kiki Edozie identifies factors that Africans have encountered since the foundation of the modern African state and presents a critical analysis of African politics through the lenses of post-colonial discourse by uniquely employing the ideas of democratic theory to guide an analysis of the Continent's democratic development and performance. Edozie presents an intra-regional comparative analysis of democratic politics in Africa in ways that few books on the same subject do for the continent. Her methodology for examining democracy in Africa reveals the dynamism of several country cases and several more regime experiences with democracy encountered from the post-World War II period to the current post-Cold War period.

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About the Author

Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo was trained at Universit‚ Libre du Congo, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago. He is Professor of Political Science at Wells College, Visiting Scholar, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, Visiting Research Fellow, Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education (CICE), Hiroshima University, Japan, Co-Founder and Director of CEPARRED, Research Associate, Institut d'Ethno-Sociologie,Universit‚ de Cocody, C“te d'Ivoire.
He is the Editor of African and Asian Studies published by Brill, Leiden, the Netherlands. He is also the Vice-President of the African Association of Political Science-Representing the Central African region.

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Publisher
University Press Of America
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0761841423
ISBN 13 
9780761841425
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
232