Voting for Democracy

Name: Voting for Democracy
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Voting for DemocracyWatershed Elections in Contemporary Anglophone Africa\nAuthor(s): John Daniel, Roger Southall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138370357, 978-1138370357\nSynopsis\nFirst published in 1999, the essays in this book examine the context and conduct of a series of watershed elections held in Anglophone Africa in the first half of the 1990s. These elections crystallized a wider process of democratization, underway in much of sub-Saharan Africa during the last decade, in which attempts were made to shift from various forms of authoritarian rule (colonial or racial oligarchies, military regimes, one-party states, or presidential rule) to pluralist parliamentary politics. \n\nThis volume brings together for the first time, studies of these events in countries sharing a comparable legacy of British colonialism, an acquaintance with the Westminster constitutional tradition and related experiences of deco.