Senegal: The return of personalism

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 156-169

  Mbow, Penda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

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EID: 39349113560     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2008.0013     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. See Momar Coumba Diop, "Le Sénégal àla croisée des chemins," Politique africaine 104 (December 2006): 103-26.
2. Never has a sitting African president inspired so many authors. Several critical works have appeared in recent years. In addition to the writings of Abdou Latif Coulibaly, the following are notable: Mamadou Seek, Les scandales politiques sous la présidence d'Abdoulaye Wade (Paris: l'Harmattan, 2006);
3. Mody Niang, Qui est cet homme qui dirige le Sénégal? (Paris: l'Harmattan, 2006);
4. Babacar Sall, Le stagiaire: Journal d'un Président de la République (Dakar: Les Sentinelles, 2007); each has been barred from distribution in Senegal.
5. "Sénégal 2000-2004, l'alternance et ses contradictions," Dossier coordinated by Tarik Dahou and Vincent Foucher, Politique africaine 96 (December 2004),
6. According to the General Census of 1988, nearly 90 percent of Senegalese belong to a Muslim brotherhood: Tidjans, 47.4 percent; Murids, 30.1 percent; Qadrya, 10.9 percent; Layènes, 0.6 percent.
7. Amnesty International Report 2007, 225, available at http://thereport. amnesty.org/document/15.
8. E.R. McMahon, "Catching the 'Third Wave' of Democratization? Debating Political Party Effectiveness in Africa Since 1980," African and Asian Studies 3:3-4 (2004): 295-320,
9. cited in Mamadou Gazibo, "Pour une réhabilitation de l'analyse des partis en Afrique," Politique africaine 104 (December 2006): 11.
10. Larry Diamond and Richard Gunther, eds., Political Parties and Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001),
11. cited by Gazibo, in "Pour une réhabilitation de l'analyse des partis en Afrique";
12. see also Larry Diamond, Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
13. M.C. Diop, M. Diouf, and A. Diaw, "Le Baobab a été déraciné: L'alternance au Sénégal," Politique africaine 78 (June 2000): 157-79.