Skip to main content
Fachgebiete
Automobil + Motoren Bauwesen + Immobilien Business IT + Informatik Elektrotechnik + Elektronik Energie + Nachhaltigkeit Finance + Banking Management + Führung Marketing + Vertrieb Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe Versicherung + Risiko
DE
EN
Themenseiten
Organisationspsychologie Projektmanagement Marketing Smart Manufacturing
Bücher
Zeitschriften
Weitere Formate
Podcasts Webinare Technik Webinare Wirtschaft Kongresse Veranstaltungskalender Awards
Jetzt Einzelzugang starten
Zugang für Unternehmen
Referenzkunden
MTZ-Fachkongress

Antriebe und Energiesysteme von morgen


Austausch von Automobil- und Energiewirtschaft

Am 14./15. Mai geht es in Chemnitz um die Mobilitätswende durch Elektro- und Wasserstofffahrzeuge.
Erweiterte Suche
Anmelden
nach oben
Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Erschienen in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 1/2016

01.10.2015 | Editorial

Competitive authoritarianism in Africa revisited

verfasst von: Prof. Matthijs Bogaards, Asst. Prof. Sebastian Elischer

Erschienen in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft | Sonderheft 1/2016

Einloggen

Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden.

search-config
loading …

Abstract

Competitive authoritarianism has emerged as a major concept in the study of political regimes. The introduction of this special issue revisits Levitsky and Way’s seminal study Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War. Although Africa is the world region with the highest absolute number of competitive authoritarian regimes, political scientists working on Africa have rarely engaged with Levitsky and Way’s modern classic. In this introduction, we summarize their arguments, outline the empirical findings for Africa, and review the critiques. In doing so we provide the background for the contributions to this special issue.
Vorheriger Artikel Preface
Nächster Artikel Coding competitive authoritarianism

Sie haben noch keine Lizenz? Dann Informieren Sie sich jetzt über unsere Produkte:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren

Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Die Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. Comparative Governance and Politics (ZfVP) ist die erste deutschsprachige Zeitschrift für zentrale Themen und innovative Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Bereich der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft.

Jetzt informieren

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Jetzt informieren
Fußnoten
1
The authors would like to thank the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the Leuphana University Lüneburg for their generous funding of an author workshop in Lüneburg in November 2013.
 
2
More countries would have qualified if Levitsky and Way (2010) had not excluded electoral autocracies where the military is a veto player. This is a contestable decision.
 
3
For a rare analysis of democratization combining Sub-Saharan Africa and Arab North Africa see Thiriot 2013.
 
4
An illuminating example of the way in which competitive authoritarian regimes manipulate supposedly democratic institutions is Goodfellow’s (2014) analysis of parliamentary law making for political purposes rather than policy making in Uganda.
 
5
Gilley (2010, p. 165) is alone in his optimistic reading of Levitsky and Way (2010), counting ten countries that “thanks to the rise of effective oppositions, have progressed enough to become borderline democracies”. On closer scrutiny, these are cases that Levitsky and Way classify as “unstable authoritarianism”—countries where turnover did not result in democratization but in the continuation of competitive authoritarianism with new, or often not so new, players.
 
6
In a similar vein, Vladisavljevic (2014) highlights the role of popular protest in competitive authotarianism.
 
7
Though Way’s (2012b) analysis of incompetence and political skills suggests a more prominent role for agency.
 
8
For a critical account of Namibia’s post-independence trajectory, see Melber 2015.
 
9
For a similar argument, focusing on what they term regional “authoritarian gravity centres”, see Kneuer and Demmelhuber 2015.
 
Literatur
Art, David. 2012. What do we know about Authoritarianism after ten years? Comparative Politics 44 (3): 351–371.CrossRef
Bejarano, Anna Maria. 2011. Book review of Levitsky and Way (2010). Political Science Quaterly 126 (4): 715–716.CrossRef
Bogaards, Matthijs. 2009. How to classify hybrid regimes? Defective democracy and electoral authoritarianism. Democratization 16 (2): 399–423.CrossRef
Bogaards, Matthijs. 2010. Measures of democratization: From degree to type of war. Political Research Quaterly 63 (2): 475–488.CrossRef
Bogaards, Matthijs. 2013. Reexamining African elections. Journal of Democracy 24 (4): 151–160.CrossRef
Bogaards, Matthijs. 2014. Multiparty elections in Africa: For better or worse. In Political parties, party systems and democracy in Africa, eds. Renske Doorenspleet and Lia Nijzink, 22–44. Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Bours Laborin, Mario. 2011. Mock democracies: Authoritarian cover-ups. Journal of International Affairs 65 (1): 254–256.
Bunce, Valerie. 2011. Defeating authoritarian leaders in post-communist countries. New York: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef
Burnell, Peter. 2013. Review article: Promoting democracy. Government and Opposition 48 (2): 265–287.CrossRef
Carothers, Thomas. 2002. The end of the transition paradigm. Journal of Democracy 13 (1): 5–21.CrossRef
Cheeseman, Nic. 2010. African elections as vehicles for change. Journal of Democracy 21 (4): 139–153.CrossRef
Dahl, Robert A. 1971. Polyarchy. Participation and Opposition. New Haven: Yale University Press.
De Jager, Nicola, and Cara Meintjes. 2013. Winners, losers and the playing field in southern Africa’s ‘Democratic Darlings’: Botswana and South Africa compared. Politikon 40 (2): 233–253.CrossRef
Diamond, Larry. 2002. Thinking about hybrid regimes. Journal of Democracy 13 (2): 21–35.CrossRef
Elischer, Sebastian. 2013. Political parties in Africa. Ethnicity and party formation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef
Fenner, Sofia. 2011. Book review of Levitsky and Way (2010). Comparative Political Studies 44 (7): 935–939.CrossRef
Fombad, Charles. 2012. The African Union and democratization. In Routledge handbook of democratization, ed. Jeffrey Haynes, 322–336. London: Routledge.
Gibson, Edward. 2010. Politics in the periphery: An introduction to subnational authoritarianism and democratization in Latin America. Journal of Politics in Latin America 2 (2): 3–12.
Gilley, Bruce. 2010. Democratic triumph, scholarly pessimism. Journal of Democracy 21 (1): 160–167.
Goodfellow, Tom. 2014. Legal maneuvers and violence: Law making, protest and semi-authortarianism in Uganda. Development and Change 45 (4): 1–24.CrossRef
Karl, Terry Lynn. 1995. The hybrid regimes of Central America. Journal of Democracy 7 (2): 3–14.
Kubik, Jan. 2011. Book review of Levitsky and Way (2010). Slavic Review 70 (3): 660–664.CrossRef
LeBas, Adrienne. 2011. From protest to parties. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRef
Levitsky, Steven and James Loxton. 2013. Populism and competitive authoritarianism in the Andes. Democratization 20 (1): 107–136.CrossRef
Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan Way. 2002. The rise of competitive authoritarianism. Journal of Democracy 13 (2): 51–64.
Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan Way. 2010. Competitive authoritarianism. Hybrid regimes after the Cold War. New York: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef
Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan Way. 2012. Beyond patronage: Violent struggle, ruling party cohesion, and authoritarian durability. Perspectives on Politics 10 (4): 869–889.CrossRef
Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan Way. 2013. The durability of revolutionary regimes. Journal of Democracy 24 (3): 5–17.CrossRef
Levitsky, Steven, and Lucan Way. 2014. Structure vs. choice. Journal of Democracy 25 (4): 151–156.CrossRef
Mainwaring, Scott. 2012. From representative democracy to participatory competitive authoritarianism: Hugo Chávez and Venezuelan politics. Perspectives on Politics 10 (4): 955–967.CrossRef
Matti, Stephanie. 2010. The democratic republic of the Congo? Corruption, patronage, and competitive authoritarianism in the DRC. Africa Today 56 (4): 43–61.CrossRef
Melber, Henning. 2015. Post-liberation democratic authoritarianism: The case of Namibia. Politikon 42 (1): 45–66.CrossRef
Morse, Yonathan. 2012. The era of electoral authoritarianism. World Politics 64 (1): 161–198.CrossRef
Morse, Yonathan. 2014. Party matters: The institutional origins of competitive hegemony in Tanzania. Democratization 21 (4): 655–677.CrossRef
O’Donnell, Guillermo, and Philippe Schmitter. 2013. Transitions from autocratic rule. Tentative conclusions about uncertain outcomes. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
Parks, Robert. 2012. Algeria and the Arab uprisings. In The Arab Spring: Will it lead to democratic transitions? eds. Clement Henry and Ji-Hyang Jang, 56–71. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Peiffer, Caryn, and Pierre Englebert. 2012. Extraversion, vulnerability to donors, and political liberalization in Africa. African Affairs 111 (444): 355–378.CrossRef
Resnick, Danielle. 2013. Urban poverty and party populism in African democracies. New York: Cambridge University Press.CrossRef
Schedler, Andreas. 1998. What is democratic consolidation? Journal of Democracy 9 (2): 91–107.CrossRef
Schedler, Andreas. 2013. The politics of uncertainty: Sustaining and subverting electoral authoritarianism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.CrossRef
Seeberg, Michael. 2011. Book review of Levitsky and Way (2010). Democratization 19 (1): 141–155.CrossRef
Seeberg, Michael. 2014. Mapping deviant democracies. Democratization 41 (4): 634–654.CrossRef
Slater, Dan. 2011. Book review of Levitsky and Way (2010). Perspectives on Politics 9 (2): 385–388.
Thiriot, Céline. 2013. Des transitions africaines au monde arabe, 1991–2011: Vent de printemps sur les outils de la transitologie. Revue Internationale De Politique Comparée 20 (2): 145–163.CrossRef
Tolstrup, Jakob. 2013. When can external actors influence democratization? leverage, linkage, and gatekeeper elites. Democratization 20 (4): 716–742.CrossRef
van de Walle, Nicholas. 2002. Elections without democracy. Journal of Democracy 13 (2): 66–80.CrossRef
Van de Walle, Nicolas. 2012. Between authoritarianism and democracy. Journal of Democracy 23 (1): 169–173.
Vladisavljevic, Nebojsa. 2014. Competitive authoritarianism, and popular protest: evidence from Serbia under Milosevic. International Political Science Review. doi:10.​1177/​0192512114535450​.
Volpi, Frédéric. 2013. Algeria versus the Arab Spring. Journal of Democracy 24 (3): 104–115.CrossRef
von Soest, Christian, and Michael Wahman. 2015. Not all dictators are equal: Coups, fraudulent elections, and the selective targeting of democratic sanctions. Journal of Peace Research 52 (1): 17–31.CrossRef
Wahman, Michael. 2014. Democratization and electoral turnover in Sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Democratization 21 (2): 220–243.CrossRef
Way, Lucan. 2008. The real causes of the color revolutions. Journal of Democracy 19 (3): 55–69.CrossRef
Way, Lucan. 2009. A reply to my critics. Journal of Democracy 20 (1): 90–97.
Way, Lucan. 2012a. The sources of authoritarian control after the Cold War: East Africa and the former Soviet Union. Post-Soviet Affairs 28 (4): 424–448.CrossRef
Way, Lucan. 2012b. Dear in headlights: Incompetence and weak authoritarianism after the cold war. Slavic Review 71 (3): 619–646.CrossRef
Weidmann, Nils. 2011. Book review of Levitsky and Way (2010). Journal of Peace Research 48 (6): 818.
Weis, Toni. 2014. Dominant parties and the private sector in Sub-Saharan Africa: A typology of approaches. Comparative Politics and Governance 8 (3–4): 263–281.
Wisemann, John. 1990. Democracy in black Africa: Survival and revival. USA: Paragon House Publishers.
Metadaten
Titel
Competitive authoritarianism in Africa revisited
verfasst von
Prof. Matthijs Bogaards
Asst. Prof. Sebastian Elischer
Publikationsdatum
01.10.2015
Verlag
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Erschienen in
Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft / Ausgabe Sonderheft 1/2016
Print ISSN: 1865-2646
Elektronische ISSN: 1865-2654
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-015-0257-6

Weitere Artikel der Sonderheft 1/2016

Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 1/2016 Zur Ausgabe

Aufsätze

Linkage, leverage and organisational power: Algeria and the Maghreb Spring

Aufsätze

Leverage and linkage: how regionalism shapes regime dynamics in Africa

Aufsätze

The limits of democratization through a regional hegemon: South African linkage and leverage and the skewed playing field in Lesotho party competition

Aufsätze

Competitive authoritarianism in Uganda: the not so hidden hand of the military

Aufsätze

Defining the playing field

Aufsätze

Citizen wellbeing in African competitive authoritarian regimes

Premium Partner

    Bildnachweise