TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lindberg, Staffan I.,
TI  -  Democracy and elections in Africa
SN  - 0801883334 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 324.96  22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Elections
KW  - Africa
KW  - Democracy
KW  -  Politics and government
KW  -  1960-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-221) and index; Introduction. The role of elections ; Why Africa? ; On regimes ; On elections and democracy ; Preindependence and postindependence election s in African nations ; Contemporary Africa's track record ; Outline of the book -- On democracy and elections. Making a conceptual choice ; De fining democracy ; Operationalizing democratic qualities of elections ; Data collection and processing -- Elections in Africa over time. Frequ ency and number of elections ; The democratic qualities, on average ; D emocratic qualities of elections over time ; Conclusions -- The self-re inforcing power of elections. Going from bad to worse ; First, second, third, fourth and later elections ; A panel-group comparison ; Conclusi ons -- 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 libe rties ; Analyzing by countries ; Conclusions -- Comparative perspective s and reflections. The transition paradigm ; Corruption and democratiza tion ; Stateness and social citizenship ; Lessons on consolidation ; Po licy implications ; The power of elections in unfavorable conditions
ER  -