Gellar Democracy in Senegal

Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa
2005
ISBN: 978-1-4039-8216-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten, eBook

Providing an in-depth comparative study of democracy formation, Gellar traces Senegal's movement from a pre-colonial aristocratic order towards a modern democratic political order. Inspired by Tocqueville's methodology, he identifies social equality, ethnic and religious tolerance, popular participation in local affairs, and freedom of association and the press as vital components of any democratic system. He shows how centralized state structures and monopoly of political power stifled local initiative and perpetuated neo-patrimonial modes of governance.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gellar, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tocqueville in Africa Point of Departure The Old Order and Colonialism Centralization and Democratic Despotism Local Liberties Political Parties, Associations, and the Press The Art of Association Spirit of Religion Language Equality Democracy in Senegal The Future of Democracy in Africa

Über Autor(innen)

SHELDON GELLAR is a Visiting Scholar at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, USA. He has worked in francophone Africa as researcher, teacher and international development consultant for more than forty years on democracy and development issues. He is the author of
Structural Changes and Colonial Dependency: Senegal: 1885-1945
and
Senegal: An African Nation Between Islam and the West
. He also served as Democracy advisor to the USAID/Senegal mission in 1998-1999.