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008			140723s2014 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2014029174
020			_a9781137011701 (hardback)
040			_aDLC _beng _cORPP _erda _dDLC
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050	0	0	_aJQ1879.A795 _bP37 2014
082	0	0	_a324.20967 _223
084			_aPOL007000 _aPOL009000 _aPOL015000 _aPOL030000 _2bisacsh
245	0	0	_aParty systems and democracy in Africa / _cedited by Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink,
264		1	_aHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; _aNew York, NY : _bPalgrave Macmillan, _c2014.
300			_axiv, 191 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: -- 1. Do Party Systems Matter for Democracy in Africa?; Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink -- 2. Multi-Party Elections in Africa: For Better or Worse; Matthijs Bogaards -- PART I: ONE-PARTY DOMINANT SYSTEMS -- 3. South Africa: Electoral Dominance, Identity Politics and Democracy; Steven Friedman -- 4 Botswana: Presidential Ambitions, Party Factions and the Durability of a Dominant Party; Christian John Makgala and Shane Mac Giollabhui; -- 5. Namibia: From Liberation to Domination; Henning Melber -- PART II: OTHER PARTY SYSTEMS -- 6. Ghana: The African Exemplar of an Institutionalized Two-Party System?; Cyril Daddieh and George Bob-Milliar -- 7. Benin: A Pulverized Party System in Transition; Rachel Gisselquist -- 8. Zambia: Dominance Won and Lost ; Dan Paget -- PART III: CONCLUSION -- 9. Do Party Systems Help or Hinder Democracy in Africa?; Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPolitical parties _zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
650		0	_aDemocracy _zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Comparative. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National. _2bisacsh
651		0	_aAfrica, Sub-Saharan _xPolitics and government _y1960-
700	1		_aDoorenspleet, Renske, _d1973-
700	1		_aNijzink, Lia.
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