Understanding democratic survival and democratic failure in Africa: Insights from divergent democratic experiments in Benin and Congo (Brazzaville)

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 552-582

  Magnusson, Bruce A ^a   Clark, John F ^b  

^a WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; POLITICAL CHANGE;

AFRICA; BENIN [EDO]; BENIN [WEST AFRICA]; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EDO; NIGERIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 22944469450     PISSN: 00104175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0010417505000253     Document Type: Review

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