Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science. But has the rise of the African middle class promoted democratic consolidation? This paper uses the case of Kenya to investigate the attitudes and behaviours of the middle class....

This paper assesses the extent to which elected power holders informally intervene in the judiciaries of new democracies, an acknowledged but under-researched topic in studies of judicial politics. The paper first develops an empirical strategy for the study of informal interference based on...

In the early 1990s most African countries carried out extensive reforms of their electoral regimes. Adopting a historical institutionalist approach, this paper critically examines the role of institutional path dependence in accounting for the setup of six African electoral regimes. For this...

Der Bericht untersucht zum einen die Ursachen und Probleme, die dem politischen Transitionsprozeß in den verschiedenen Staaten Afrikas zugrunde liegen, und zum anderen die Chancen und Perspektiven, die sich für die Herausbildung demokratischer Elemente, wie Presse- und Meinungsfreiheit,...