8 The "Mauritius Miracle": Democracy, Institutions, and Economic Policy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS VII
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS XI
4. PART I Overview
5. 1 State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa 1
6. 2 The Third Wave of Democratization in Africa: Ambiguities and Contradictions 15
7. 3 Rethinking Democratic Transitions: Lessons from Eastern and Southern Africa 39
8. 4 The Reconfiguration of Power in Late Twentieth-Century Africa 57
9. PART 2 The Political Economy of Democratization
10. 5 The Economic Bases of Democratization 81
11. 6 Globalization and African Democracy 95
12. 7 Crisis Management and the Making of "Choiceless Democracies" 119
13. 8 The "Mauritius Miracle": Democracy, Institutions, and Economic Policy 137
14. PART 3 Political Restructuring and Regime Politics
15. 9 African Polities: The Next Generation 163
16. 10 Governance and the Reconstitution of Political Order 179
17. 11 Senegal's Enlarged Presidential Majority: Deepening Democracy or Detour? 197
18. 12 Testing Democracy in Benin: Experiments in Institutional Reform 217
19. 13 Race, Class, and Neopatrimonialism in Zimbabwe 239
20. 14 The Role of Citizenship Laws in Multiethnic Societies: Evidence from Africa 267
21. 15 Local Governance, Democracy, and Development 285
22. PART 4 Ethnicity, Conflict, and Insecurity
23. 16 Ethnic Politics in Africa: Change and Continuity 297
24. 17 Ethnic Insecurity, Peace Agreements, and State Building 319
25. 18 State, Civil Society, and Genocide in Rwanda 339
26. 19 Autocracy, Violence, and Ethnomilitary Rule in Nigeria 359
27. PART 5 Elections and Democratization
28. 20 A First Look at Second Elections in Africa, with Illustrations from Zambia 375
29. 21 Ghana: The Challenges of Consolidating Democracy 409
30. 22 Challenges to Democratic Consolidation in Namibia 429
31. PART 6 Conclusion
32. 23 State, Conflict, and Democracy in Africa: The Complex Process of Renewal 449
33. ABBREVIATIONS 467
34. BIBLIOGRAPHY 471
35. ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 511
36. INDEX 515
37. ABOUT THE BOOK 527