Competitive authoritarianism in Africa revisited

Matthijs Bogaards, Sebastian Elischer

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)5-18
Number of pages14
JournalZeitschrift fur Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Volume10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Africa
  • Autocratization
  • Comparative politics
  • Competitive authoritarianism
  • Political regimes

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