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Transiton to democracy in Senegal: The role of decentralization

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dc.contributor.authorVengroff, R.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialSénégalen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:55:55Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:55:55Zen
dc.date.issued1993en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractAlthough many African nations are engaged in the process of democratization, Senegal is one of the few generally considered to be successfully making the transition to a fully democratic state. The African Governance Program of the Carter Center of Emory University has developed an eight-point scale for measuring phases of the transition to democracy, eight being the final stage, consolidation of democracy. Senegal receives a seven on this scale - the legitimization stage, the highest rating ever received by an African country - indicating that "the legitimacy of the government as well as the constitutional democratic system is generally accepted." It should also be noted that Senegal is the only one of the five states to receive such a rating (the others being Gambia, Mauritius, Namibia, and Botswana) which is not a micro-state in terms of either size or population. While it cannot be said that democracy has been fully institutionalized in Senegal, clearly some very important steps have been taken in that direction. -- Author's Introductionen
dc.description.notesAvailable in SANREM office, FSen
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier1306en
dc.identifier.citationpreviously published as an article in the Winter 1993 issue of In Depth 3: 23-52en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/66018en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.relation.ispartofIn Kim I. and J. Shapiro (eds.). 1993. Establishing Democratic Rule, 159-188. Washington, D.C.: Paragon Pressen
dc.subjectGovernment policyen
dc.subjectGovernmenten
dc.subjectDecentralizationen
dc.subjectDemocratizationen
dc.subjectSenegalen
dc.subjectTransitionsen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleTransiton to democracy in Senegal: The role of decentralizationen
dc.typeAbstracten
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