Crisis, violence and political succession in Africa

Third World Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 129-148

  Govea, Rodger M ^b   Holm, John D ^a  

^a CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING REGION; LEADERSHIP; POLITICAL SUCCESSION; POLITICAL VIOLENCE;

AFRICA;

EID: 0031776923     PISSN: 01436597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01436599814569     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. 'The more often the organization has surmounted the problem of peaceful succession and replaced one set of leaders by another, the more highly institutionalized it is'. Samuel Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1968.
2. We refer here to the case of Marbury vs. Madison (1803).
3. See especially Juan Linz & Albert Stepan, The Breakdown of Democracy, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978; Guillermo A O'Donnell, Philippe Schmitter & Laurence Whitehead (eds), Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986; L Diamond, J Linz & SM Lipset (eds), Democracy in Developing Countries: Africa, Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1988; and Samuel Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, Norman, OR: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
4. See especially Juan Linz & Albert Stepan, The Breakdown of Democracy, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978; Guillermo A O'Donnell, Philippe Schmitter & Laurence Whitehead (eds), Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986; L Diamond, J Linz & SM Lipset (eds), Democracy in Developing Countries: Africa, Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1988; and Samuel Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, Norman, OR: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
5. See especially Juan Linz & Albert Stepan, The Breakdown of Democracy, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978; Guillermo A O'Donnell, Philippe Schmitter & Laurence Whitehead (eds), Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986; L Diamond, J Linz & SM Lipset (eds), Democracy in Developing Countries: Africa, Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1988; and Samuel Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, Norman, OR: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
6. See especially Juan Linz & Albert Stepan, The Breakdown of Democracy, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978; Guillermo A O'Donnell, Philippe Schmitter & Laurence Whitehead (eds), Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986; L Diamond, J Linz & SM Lipset (eds), Democracy in Developing Countries: Africa, Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1988; and Samuel Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, Norman, OR: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
7. Richard LY Li & William R Thompson, 'The coup contagion hypothesis', Journal of Conflict Resolution, 19, 1975, pp 63-84; Manus Midlarsky & Raymond Tanter, 'Toward a theory of political instability in Latin America, Journal of Peace Research, 3, 1967, pp 209-227; Edward Luttwak, Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1969; and RW Jackman, The predictability of coups d'etat: a model with African data, American Political Science Review, 72, 1978, pp 1262-1275.
8. Richard LY Li & William R Thompson, 'The coup contagion hypothesis', Journal of Conflict Resolution, 19, 1975, pp 63-84; Manus Midlarsky & Raymond Tanter, 'Toward a theory of political instability in Latin America, Journal of Peace Research, 3, 1967, pp 209-227; Edward Luttwak, Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1969; and RW Jackman, The predictability of coups d'etat: a model with African data, American Political Science Review, 72, 1978, pp 1262-1275.
9. Richard LY Li & William R Thompson, 'The coup contagion hypothesis', Journal of Conflict Resolution, 19, 1975, pp 63-84; Manus Midlarsky & Raymond Tanter, 'Toward a theory of political instability in Latin America, Journal of Peace Research, 3, 1967, pp 209-227; Edward Luttwak, Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1969; and RW Jackman, The predictability of coups d'etat: a model with African data, American Political Science Review, 72, 1978, pp 1262-1275.
10. Richard LY Li & William R Thompson, 'The coup contagion hypothesis', Journal of Conflict Resolution, 19, 1975, pp 63-84; Manus Midlarsky & Raymond Tanter, 'Toward a theory of political instability in Latin America, Journal of Peace Research, 3, 1967, pp 209-227; Edward Luttwak, Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook, Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, 1969; and RW Jackman, The predictability of coups d'etat: a model with African data, American Political Science Review, 72, 1978, pp 1262-1275.
11. Ted Robert Gurr, Why Men Rebel, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970; Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1979; and Chalmers Johnson, Revolutionary Change, Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1966.
12. Ted Robert Gurr, Why Men Rebel, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970; Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1979; and Chalmers Johnson, Revolutionary Change, Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1966.
13. Ted Robert Gurr, Why Men Rebel, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970; Theda Skocpol, States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1979; and Chalmers Johnson, Revolutionary Change, Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1966.
14. Henry Bienen & Nicholas van de Walle, Of Time and Power: Leadership Duration in the Modern World, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991.
15. John Londregan, Henry Bienen & Nicholas van de Walle, 'Ethnicity and leadership succession in Africa, International Studies Quarterly, 39, 1995, pp 1-25.
16. R Jackson & C Rosberg, Personal Rule in Black Africa, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982. See also AR Zolberg, Creating Political Order: The Party-States of West Africa, Chicago: Rand McNally, 1966.
17. R Jackson & C Rosberg, Personal Rule in Black Africa, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1982. See also AR Zolberg, Creating Political Order: The Party-States of West Africa, Chicago: Rand McNally, 1966.
18. Robert B Charlick & Rodger M. Govea, 'Stratagems, conditions and chance: transitions beyond personal rule in Mexico and Niger', paper presented to the International Studies Association, Washington, DC, April 1990.
19. This method produced some differences between our own collection and the best known collection on succession, Bienen & van de Walle, Of Time and Power. For a complete discussion of those differences, see Rodger M Govea & John D Holm, 'A report from a new data set on African succession, paper presented to the African Studies Association, Seattle, WA, November 1993.
20. This method produced some differences between our own collection and the best known collection on succession, Bienen & van de Walle, Of Time and Power. For a complete discussion of those differences, see Rodger M Govea & John D Holm, 'A report from a new data set on African succession, paper presented to the African Studies Association, Seattle, WA, November 1993.
21. For an excellent example of analysis of regulated succession in an African monarchy and the implicit rules which governed, see MG Smith, Government in Zauzau, 1800-1950. London: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp 33-36.
22. Donald G Morrison, Black Africa: A Comparative Handbook, New York: Free Press, 1989.
23. Colin Legum was editor of ACR through the 1987-88 edition, Vol XX. Marion Doro joined him as co-editor for this volume and became the sole editor for 1988-89. At first ACR was published by Rex Hollings in London, now it is done by Africana Publishing in New York. We were able to obtain information on several of the 1967 cases out of volume 1, even though it supposedly covered 1968-69.
24. Observations were taken from 1989 to 1991, so that there are slight variations from country to country. However, these variations are unlikely to be statistically relevant.
25. Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies.
26. Londregan et al, 'Ethnicity and leadership succession in Africa'.
27. WW Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth, London: Cambridge University Press, 1960.
28. Londregan et al, 'Ethnicity and leaderships succession in Africa'.
29. Jack Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991; and Eric Wolf, Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, New York: Harper and Row, 1969.
30. Jack Goldstone, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991; and Eric Wolf, Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, New York: Harper and Row, 1969.