Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub–Saharan Africa - Softcover

Widner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080184844X ISBN 13: 9780801848445

Publisher: John Hopkins University Press, 1994

Synopsis

In 1989, following the beginning of democratization in Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe, a wave of political liberalization swept countries south of the Sahara. In "Economic and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa", Jennifer Widner brings together a distinguished group of scholars to examine the reasons for these tentative steps toward democracy in a context of poverty, highlighting the effects of economic crisis on demands for political reform. Combining broadly comparative, theoretical chapters with important case studies that offer new hypotheses for consideration, the book seeks to establish the nature of the relationship between the economic challenges of the 1980s and the steps toward greater political openness taken by governments at the end of that decade. Cases include Benin, the first African country to engage in political liberation in this period, as well as Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana and Cameroon.

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Product Description

304pages. 23x15x2cm. Broché.

Review

"This is useful work which develops interesting ideas, derived from a neoclassical approach to political economy, within the context of the political events of the Africa of the early 1990's." -- African Affairs

Edition details

• Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080184844X
• ISBN 13: 9780801848445
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320