TY  - BOOK
AU  - Decalo,Samuel
TI  - Africa, the lost decades
SN  - 9781890357320
AV  - JQ1873 .D4 2012
U1  - 322.5096 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Gainesville, London
PB  - Florida Academic Press
KW  - Military government
KW  - Africa
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Civil-military relations
KW  - Coups d'état
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Political activity
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1960-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Military coups and military regimes in Africa -- Praetorianism, corporate grievances and idiosyncratic factors in African military hierarchies -- African personal dictatorships -- Modalities of civil-military stability in Africa -- Regionalism, political decay, and civil strife in Chad -- The morphology of radical African military rule in Africa -- Ideological rhetoric and scientific socialism in Benin and Congo/Brazzaville -- Socio-economic constraints on radical action in the People's Republic of Congo -- The process, prospects, and constraints of democratization in Africa -- The future of participatory democracy in Africa -- Coups and military regimes 1974-2004: has anything 325 really changed?
ER  -