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  title info:
    title: Democracy and elections in Africa
  name:
    name part: Lindberg, Staffan I.
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  table of contents: Introduction. The role of elections ; Why Africa? ; On regimes ; On elections and democracy ; Preindependence and postindependence elections in African nations ; Contemporary Africa's track record ; Outline of the book -- On democracy and elections. Making a conceptual choice ; Defining democracy ; Operationalizing democratic qualities of elections ; Data collection and processing -- Elections in Africa over time. Frequency and number of elections ; The democratic qualities, on average ; Democratic qualities of elections over time ; Conclusions -- The self-reinforcing power of elections. Going from bad to worse ; First, second, third, fourth and later elections ; A panel-group comparison ; Conclusions -- The causal effects of elections. Democratic qualities in society ; A missing factor of democratization ; Hypotheses and causal links -- Democratization by elections? Elections are associated with civil liberties ; Analyzing by countries ; Conclusions -- Comparative perspectives and reflections. The transition paradigm ; Corruption and democratization ; Stateness and social citizenship ; Lessons on consolidation ; Policy implications ; The power of elections in unfavorable conditions.
  note: Staffan I. Lindberg.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-221) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: Elections
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1960-
  classification: JQ1879.A5 L55 2006
  classification: 324.96/0329
  identifier: 0801883326 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 0801883334 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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    record creation date: 050823
    record change date: 20151104071310.0
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