ADDITIONAL READING LIST: POLI 452/412 - POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC REFORM AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA

2ND SEMESTER 2013-2014 DR. MAAME A.A. GYEKYE-JANDOH

Additional References for POLI 412: Political and Economic Reform and Democracy in Africa

Weeks 3 & 4: Transition to Democracy in Africa -External and Internal Influences

External Influences and Transition to Democracy in Africa

Some Additional References:

Linz, Juan and Alfred Stepan. 1978. The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes: Crisis, Breakdown      and Reequilibration. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Linz, Juan and Alfred Stepan. 1996. Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

O’Donnell, Guillermo and Phillipe Schmitter. 1986. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule.

Ninsin, Kwame. 1996. Ghana’s Political Transition 1990-1993: Selected Documents. Accra, Ghana: Freedom Publications.

Ninsin, Kwame. 1998. Ghana: Transition to Democracy. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA; Accra, Ghana: Freedom Publications.

Bratton, Michael. 1994. “Civil Society and Political Transition in Africa.” IDR Reports. Volume 11, Number 6.

Bratton, Michael. 1994. “Civil Society and Political Transitions in Africa.” In Harbeson, John, Donald Rothchild, and Naomi Chazan.eds. Civil Society and the State in Africa. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Collier and Mahoney, 1997. “Adding Collective Actors to Collective Outcomes: Labor and Recent Democratization in South America and Southern Europe.”  Comparative Politics 29. 3 April: 285-303.

Collier 1999. Paths Toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and South America.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Huber, Evelyne, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and John D. Stevens. 1997. “The Paradoxes of Contemporary Democracy: Formal, Participatory, and Social Dimensions.” Comparative Politics 29.3. April: 323-342.

Diamond, Larry, Juan J. Linz, and Seymour Martin Lipset. 1995. Politics in Developing Countries: Comparing Experiences with Democracy. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Herbst, Jeffrey. 2001. “Political Liberalization in Africa after Ten Years.” Comparative Politics 33. 3: 357-375.

Almond, Gabriel and Sidney Verba. 1963. The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Gyimah-Boadi, E. 2004. Democratic Reform in Africa.

Karl, Terry Lynn. 1990. “Dilemmas of Democratization in Latin America.” Comparative Politics 22: 1-20.

Levitsky, Steven and Lucan A. Way. 2005. “International Linkage and Democratization.” Journal of Democracy 16. 3 (July).

Levitsky, Steven and Lucan A. Way. 2002. “The Rise of Competitive Authoritarianism.”  Journal of Democracy 13 (April).

North, Douglass C. 1990. Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Skocpol, Theda. 1979.  States and Social Revolutions.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Skocpol, Theda. 1985. “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research.” In Evans, Peter B, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol. eds. Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

World Bank. 1989. World Bank Sub-Saharan African Report. Washington, D.C.

World Bank. 1989. Sub-Saharan Africa: From Crisis to Sustainable Growth: A Long-Term Perspective Study. Washington, D.C.

World Bank. 1994. Adjustment in Africa: Reforms, Results, and the Road Ahead. Washington, DC: World Bank.

McFaul, Michael. 2002.  “The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Non-cooperative Transitions in the Post-communist World.”  World Politics 54. 2.

Luckham, Robin. 1995. “Dilemmas of Military Disengagement and Democratization in Africa.” IDS Bulletin 26: 49-61. Sussex, England: Institute for Development Studies.

Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1960; 1981.  Political Man: The Social Basis of Politics. New York: Doubleday.

Joseph, Richard. 1998. “Africa, 1990-1997: From Abertura to Closure.” Journal of Democracy 9. 2 (April) 3-18.

Joseph, Richard. 1997. Democratization in Africa after 1989: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives. Comparative Politics 29: 363-382.

Huntington, Samuel. 1991. The Third Wave: Democratization In The Late Twentieth Century. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press

Hutchful, Eboe. 1992. The International Dimensions of the Democratization Process in Africa. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA.

Haggard, Stephan and Robert Kaufmann. 1995. The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Gyimah-Boadi, Emmanuel, Mike Oquaye and Kofi Drah. 2000. Civil Society Organizations and Ghanaian Democratization. Accra: CDD-Ghana.

Drah, Francis K. 1993. “Civil Society and the Transition to Pluralistic Democracy” In Ninsin, K.A. and F.K. Drah, eds. Political Parties and Democracy in Ghana’s Fourth Republic. Accra: Woeli Publishing Services.

Diamond, Larry. 1999. Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

De Tocqueville, Alexis. 1899/1956. Democracy in America. Specially edited and abridged by Richard Heffner. New York: New American Library.

Dahl, Robert A. 1971.  Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition.  New Haven: Yale University Press.

Colomer, Josep M. 2000.  Strategic Transitions: Game Theory and Democratization.  Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Bunce, Valerie. 2000. “Comparative Democratization: Big and Bounded Generalizations.” Comparative Political Studies 33: 6/7. August/September: 703-734.

Bunce, Valerie. 1998. “Regional Differences in Democratization.” Post-Soviet Affairs 14: 187-211.

Boafo-Arthur, Kwame. 1998. “The International Community and Ghana’s Transition to Democracy.” In Ninsin, K. A. ed. Ghana: Transition to Democracy. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA; Accra, Ghana: Freedom Publications.

Bermeo, Nancy. 1990. “Rethinking Regime Change.” Comparative Politics 22. April: 359-377.