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The New Wave of Presidential Authoritarianism in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
The New Wave of Presidential Authoritarianism in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Author(s): Sergiu Mișcoiu
Subject(s): History, Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane
Keywords: presidentialism; Francophone Africa; authoritarianism; elections; democracy

Summary/Abstract: Within this article, I try to weigh the existence and magnitude of democratic regression by breaking it into several dimensions related to the political and institutional frameworks and to the practices of power control and power projection. In order to support my arguments, instead of doing an in-depth country-based case study, I give several relevant examples from different countries of this area.

  • Issue Year: XXVII/2018
  • Issue No: Suppl 1
  • Page Range: 67-76
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English