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Regime Change and Democratization
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Abstract:
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In the study of democratization in Africa, a huge body of
literature has attributed the changes to aid conditionality, civil
society activism, and changes in international political environment.
Contentious politics and the emergent social movements have
nevertheless received almost no attention in the literature. Kenya has
just emerged from a long period of contentious politics that ended with
the defeat of the Kenya Africa National Union (KANU) by the National
Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC), a grouping of 15 political parties.
The key questions the paper attempts to answer are, that in an
increasingly complex web of interaction that involves both domestic and
external political actors, interest groups, and state and society
interactions, are mono-causal accounts capable of capturing the vast
panoply of individual processes of democratization that are in most
cases country and context specific? Or, where regime change eventually
takes place, is it adequate to attribute the outcome to only one actor
be they elite, civil society, conditionality, or social movements? Is
it not possible that regime transition and democratization in general
is a product, not of a unilinear trajectory that could be explained by
single event, but that of a convergence of varying causal factors which
being context determined, thrive on opportunities and constraints
produced by contentious politics? Using an Integrative Process Model,
the paper proposes these three critical arguments namely: First, that
democratization and regime change is not the outcome a single
contributory factor, but that of multiple factors within a given context.
Second, successful regime change requires the full participation of a
section of the elite within the ruling party, generally in the
direction of change, and Third, regime change results from
opportunities that such participation open up in the ruling coalition,
which are then exploited by social movements. |
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Association:
Name: The Midwest Political Science Association
URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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MLA Citation:
| Muhula, Raymond. "Regime Change and Democratization
in Kenya, 1990-Present: The Role of Contentious Politics and the rise
of the Social Movement for Democracy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 15, 2004 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p84097_index.html> |
APA Citation:
| Muhula, R. , 2004-04-15 "Regime Change and Democratization
in Kenya, 1990-Present: The Role of Contentious Politics and the rise
of the Social Movement for Democracy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p84097_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: In the study of democratization in Africa, a huge body of
literature has attributed the changes to aid conditionality, civil
society activism, and changes in international political environment.
Contentious politics and the emergent social movements have
nevertheless received almost no attention in the literature. Kenya has
just emerged from a long period of contentious politics that ended with
the defeat of the Kenya Africa National Union (KANU) by the National
Alliance Rainbow Coalition (NARC), a grouping of 15 political parties.
The key questions the paper attempts to answer are, that in an
increasingly complex web of interaction that involves both domestic and
external political actors, interest groups, and state and society
interactions, are mono-causal accounts capable of capturing the vast
panoply of individual processes of democratization that are in most
cases country and context specific? Or, where regime change eventually
takes place, is it adequate to attribute the outcome to only one actor
be they elite, civil society, conditionality, or social movements? Is
it not possible that regime transition and democratization in general
is a product, not of a unilinear trajectory that could be explained by
single event, but that of a convergence of varying causal factors which
being context determined, thrive on opportunities and constraints
produced by contentious politics? Using an Integrative Process Model,
the paper proposes these three critical arguments namely: First, that
democratization and regime change is not the outcome a single
contributory factor, but that of multiple factors within a given context.
Second, successful regime change requires the full participation of a
section of the elite within the ruling party, generally in the
direction of change, and Third, regime change results from
opportunities that such participation open up in the ruling coalition,
which are then exploited by social movements. |
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