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Evaluating democratic consolidation in Ghana.

Date Submitted: 07/28/2003 09:48:36
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Democratisation was not supposed to happen in Africa - at least concede the majority of political scientists. According to the main theories about the requirements or positive conditions for democracy, most African countries constituted "infertile terrain (Joseph 1999, 238)". Africa simply had too little of what seemed obligatory for constitutional democratic politics. African states were too poor and not sufficiently capitalist, they were not fully infiltrated by western Christianity and lacked the essential civic culture. Compounded to …

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…'Democratization in Africa after: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives' in Transitions to Democracy. 1999. (ed) Anderson, L. Columbia University Press: New York. Oelbaum, J and Sandbrook, R. 'Reforming Dysfunctional Institutions Through Democratisation? Reflections on Ghana' in The Journal of African Studies, vol 35(4), 1997. Cambridge University Press: UK. Przeworski, A, et al. Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and well-being in the World. 2000. Cambridge University Press: New York. Schedler, A. 'What is Democratic Consolidation?' in Journal of Democracy, vol 9(2), 1998

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