Dressing up and rethinking political development in Africa: : the blind spots of the Rwandan political regime under P. Kagame
If the market economy and liberal democracy are the preconditions for development (Camdessus 1991), why are some countries poorer than before they embarked on democratic transition processes? Based on some of the work of theorists of democracy and "developmentalism", including S. Lipset, t...
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://claroscuro.unr.edu.ar/index.php/revista/article/view/122 |
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| Sumario: | If the market economy and liberal democracy are the preconditions for development (Camdessus 1991), why are some countries poorer than before they embarked on democratic transition processes? Based on some of the work of theorists of democracy and "developmentalism", including S. Lipset, the article questions the capacity of traditionally used criteria of democracy to account, intellectually and empirically, for social and political change. By testing the classification criteria and methodology of certain democracy indices, it explores the heuristic and even methodological relevance of the concept of legitimacy, a blind spot in the literature on political development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The article is situated at the intersection of normative analysis (dynamics of legitimacy and just authority viewed from the point of view of what is accepted) and positive analysis of democracy in a transition context. Specifically, it examines how best to measure the effects and impacts of power, while also looking at the values and norms that should prevail in assessing structural transformations in Africa and the conditions that should be taken into account in selecting countries deemed "politically like-minded." |
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