| 来源类型 | Commentary
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| 规范类型 | 评论
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| Africa’s Democratic Moment? |
| Judd Devermont; Jon Temin
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| 发表日期 | 2019-06-17
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| 出版年 | 2019
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 概述 | Judd Devermont and Jon Temin argue that a confluence of new leaders at the helm of influential African nations could pave the way for a democratic moment on the continent. Success$however$is not a guarantee and the path to progress is littered with obstacles. |
| 摘要 | June 17, 2019
In the 60-plus years since the countries of sub-Saharan Africa started becoming independent, democracy there has advanced unevenly. During the Cold War, many African states turned into Soviet- or U.S.-backed dictatorships. Afterward, some nascent democracies made notable gains, but others ended up backsliding. Even as some countries in the region have grown into success stories, most have failed to embrace true democracy, despite a deep hunger for it among their populations. Today, a mere 11 percent of Africans live in countries that Freedom House considers free.
But change is afoot. Whereas from 2010 to 2014, the region experienced nine transfers of power from one leader to another, since 2015, the region has experienced 26 of them. Some of these transitions amounted to one leader relinquishing his or her seat to a handpicked successor, but more than half featured an opposition candidate defeating a member of the incumbent party. Of the 49 leaders in power in sub-Saharan Africa at the beginning of 2015, only 22 of them remained in power as of May 2019. Just one of the newcomers, Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe, entered office through a coup (although once someone is chosen to succeed Omar al-Bashir in Sudan, the count will grow to two). Gone are the decades when power regularly changed hands through coups—87 times between 1950 and 2010, according to one count.
Read the full article in Foreign Affairs here. |
| URL | https://www.csis.org/analysis/africas-democratic-moment
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| 来源智库 | Center for Strategic and International Studies (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/330128
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