TY  - BOOK
AU  - BRATTON Michael
AU  - VAN DE WALLE Nicholas
TI  - Democratic experiments in Africa: regime transitions in comparative perspective
SN  - 0521556120 (pbk.)
PY  - 1997///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
KW  - AFRICA
N2  - Efforts to install democracy in African countries are powerfully shaped by the continent's recent political and institutional legacies. In this book, Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle analyze the significant political reforms undertaken by some 40 out of 47 sub-Saharan countries in the early 1990s, which included the first competitive elections in a generation. How can this wave of political liberalization be explained? Why did some countries complete a democratic transition, whereas others sustained only limited political reform or suffered authoritarian reversals? What are the long-term prospects for democracy in Africa?
ER  -