African Ambiguities: “No-party Democracy” in Uganda

Issue Date April 1998
Volume 9
Issue 2
Page Numbers 49-61
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About the Author

Nelson Kasfir, professor of government at Dartmouth College, is the editor of a forthcoming collection of essays critically analyzing the relationship between civil society and democracy. He is currently writing on the logic of neopatrimonialism and its impact on democratization in Africa.

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