Can elections create democrats? Why and how do formerly armed opposition groups decide to invest in electoral politics or to undermine them? This book argues that the answer lies in the patterns of inter- and intraparty struggles created by participation in repeated elections over time.



Autorentext
Carrie Manning is Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University.

Inhalt
Introduction: Elections, Democratization and Statebuilding * Parties as Mediators of System Change * Mozambique: The Case of Renamo * Bosnia: The Croatian Democratic Union and the Serbian Democratic Party * El Salvador: The FMLN * Conclusion: Electoralism and the Making of "Democrats"
Titel
The Making of Democrats
Untertitel
Elections and Party Development in Postwar Bosnia, El Salvador, and Mozambique
EAN
9780230611160
ISBN
978-0-230-61116-0
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Veröffentlichung
31.03.2008
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
1.46 MB
Anzahl Seiten
198
Jahr
2008
Untertitel
Englisch