Frontiers of Liberal and . Non-Liberal Democracy in Tropical Africa

Author: GLICKMAN, HARVEY

Source: Journal of Asian and African Studies, Volume 23, Numbers 3-4, 1988 , pp. 234-254(21)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

Africa's present circumstances of economic adversity may offer new opportunities for democratization, as a result of the decline of state direction of economies, a rise of class-based pluralism and the use of legal-institutional means for criticisms and participation. This paper investigates the responses to economic decline of a sampling of African political commentators, 1980-1985, and reports of the uses of institutional means of participation, 1981-1986. A survey of the evidence from three countries reveals no certain pattern, but suggests the emergence of practices of "diarchy"-tension-laden cooperation-between party and government and between courts and administration.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852188X00268

Affiliations: 1: Haverford College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

Publication date: 1988-01-01

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