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Norman, Maavi Allen.

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The Leadership Factor and the Quest to Reform the African State.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The Leadership Factor and the Quest to Reform the African State./
作者:	Norman, Maavi Allen.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
面頁冊數:	244 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-10A(E).
標題:	Political science. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3705330
ISBN:	9781321782479

The Leadership Factor and the Quest to Reform the African State.
Norman, Maavi Allen.

The Leadership Factor and the Quest to Reform the African State. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 244 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2015.

The early post-colonial era in Africa (1957-1990) presented national African leadership with unique challenges. The confluence of negative colonial legacies, cold war machinations, the proliferation of military coups d'etat, and vulnerability to external economic shocks increased risks to political leaders. Their response to these exigencies was a systemic inclination toward regime consolidation, monopolization of power and authority, and curtailment of political rights and civil liberties with the intent of preserving order and ensuring regime survival. Corresponding suboptimal economic policies, in many cases, served these political ends. One widely held assumption was that reforms, namely political and economic liberalization, were risky, and that political stability and order were preconditions for pursuing any other transformative agenda. Hence, the pursuit of reforms eluded many African leaders of the time. However, a few leaders defied this trend and broke from the status quo in undertaking liberalizing reforms. What explains their impetus for undertaking liberalizing reforms during this period of systemic power consolidation?

ISBN: 9781321782479Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.

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