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Journal Article
POLITICAL OPENNESS IN POST AUTHORITARIAN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (SSA)
2015
Overview
Approaches that treat all countries as fundamentally similar provide only limited insights into the variations in democratic experiences. This article attempts to start filling in this space. In doing so, the approach (following Englebert and Boduszynski and Diamond), is to first classify all sub-Saharan African countries into sets of political regimes by looking at their democratic performance over the 1985-2010 period. The authors then review the degree to which dominant modernization and Modem World System theories account for differences among these categories. The findings of this article suggest that most of the conventional variables, particularly of the modernization type, do not adequately explain the divergent processes of democratic consolidation in each country because they place too much emphasis on internal affairs, societal pressures, and developments within the nation-states themselves. Instead, the degree to which an African country is tied politically, economically, and socially to western countries and western-led multilateral institutions is a crucial factor in explaining democratic success or failure.
Publisher
University Press of Florida
