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Contending Political Paradigms in Africa: Rationality and the Politics of Democratization in Kenya and Zambia

Contending Political Paradigms in Africa: Rationality and the Politics of Democratization in Kenya and Zambia

Nasong'o, Shadrack Wanjala

Paperback

Series: African Studies

African HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0415646960
ISBN13: 9780415646963
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 14 2012
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book focuses on the politics of democratization in Africa, especially the strategic choices of the political elite, both incumbent and opposition within the context of transition politics. The decade 1990- 2000 saw a total of 78 top leadership elections involving 43 of the 48 sub-Saharan African countries. Of these elections, only 27% led to regime change. Yet even where regime change occurred, authoritarianism persisted. The objective of the book is to analyze and explain this dual paradox of limited change of regime and persistent authoritarianism in the face of democratization. Its central thesis is that this eventuality is a function of the strategic environment of political engagement, which was not reshaped fundamentally to enable the emergence of a new mode of politics.

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