No-Party Democracy? : : Ugandan Politics in Comparative Perspective /

No-Party Democracy? : : Ugandan Politics in Comparative Perspective / / Giovanni Carbone.

Are political parties an essential element of democracy? Or can a no-party system constitute a viable democratic alternative? Giovanni Carbone examines the politics of Museveni’s Uganda to illustrate the achievements, contradictions, and limitations of participatory politics in the absence of partis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Carbone, Giovanni,
Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
©2008
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (259 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 No-Party Democracy
  • 2 Building a No-Party State in Uganda
  • 3 The Political Economy of Support for the New Regime
  • 4 Museveni’s Political Trajectory
  • 5 The Movement: A Partisan Organization in Disguise
  • 6 The State of the Old Parties in a No-Party State
  • 7 The Electoral Politics of No-Partyism
  • 8 The Parliamentary Politics of No-Partyism
  • 9 The Demise of a Democratic Model
  • List of Acronyms
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Book

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