دورية أكاديمية
Institutions and Elites: Democracy and Stability in sub-Saharan Africa
| العنوان: | Institutions and Elites: Democracy and Stability in sub-Saharan Africa |
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| المؤلفون: | Burgess, Michael R |
| المصدر: | Honors Projects |
| بيانات النشر: | Digital Commons @ IWU |
| سنة النشر: | 2011 |
| المجموعة: | Illinois Wesleyan University: Digital Commons@IWU |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Institutions, Power-Sharing, Democratic Consolidation, sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Comparative Politics, Political Science |
| الوصف: | Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most politically unstable and undemocratic regions in the world. Theories of power-sharing and recent studies have indicated that institutions that allow for higher levels of power-sharing are often more successful at consolidating democracy and stability in highly divided societies, like those common in Sub-Saharan Africa. By examining the electoral system, executive type, and level of decentralization, this study first determines the level of institutional power-sharing for each of the 48 sub-Saharan states. Next, it compares these levels of power-sharing with indicators of democracy and state stability to determine if more power-sharing does correspond with higher levels of democracy and stability. Using a bivariate analysis and factoring in region, the data show a strong and significant correlation between higher levels of institutional power-sharing and higher levels of democracy and state stability in sub-Saharan Africa. However, power-sharing does not appear to be a necessary or sufficient driver of democratic outcomes. In order to better determine the nature of the relationship between institutional design and contextual factors, the later part of the study employs a focused-structured most-similar comparison between Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, countries with identical and moderately low power-sharing scores but drastically different levels of democracy and state stability. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | unknown |
| العلاقة: | https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/polisci_honproj/42Test; https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=polisci_honprojTest |
| الإتاحة: | https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/polisci_honproj/42Test https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=polisci_honprojTest |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.BBB258B7 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| الوصف غير متاح. |