Democracy, the state and conflict in Africa
Session 2: DEMOCRATIZATION IN AFRICA: FROM AUTHORITARIAN RULE TO A CONTINENT OF “DEFECTIVE DEMOCRACIES”
Group work assignment:
President Yoweri Museveni from Uganda is often regarded as a „Big Men”. Please start with some information on the political history of Uganda. Would you understand the role of President Museveni as a dictator? thief? mediator? consensus-builder?
Drážovská, Dominika
Hadamčíková, Natálie
Hasalová, Veronika
Klička, Ondřej
Reading:
Walle, Nicolas van de, 2015: Electoral authoritarianism and multi-party politics, in: Cheesemann, Nic eds., 2015: Routledge Handbook of African Politics, Oxford, pp. 227-238.
Driscoll,
Barry, 2020 Big Man or Boogey Man? The concept of the Big Man in political
science, in: Journal of Modern African Studies,
58, 4, pp. 521-550.