The role of actors and institutions: The difficulties of democratic survival in Mali and Niger

Moestrup, Sophia

doi:10.1080/13510349908403616

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“…Only four days after the ousting of president Traoré on March 30, 1991, the democratic opposition movement and those military leaders who had overthrown the president created a transitional government, the Comité de Transition pour la Salut du Peuple (CTSP), which organized the transition and stepped down after the first democratic elections had taken place in April 1992 (see Hanke 2001, 115). The core of the transition phase was the National Conference, which reflected all relevant political and social discussions in a condensed form (Moestrup 1999; Nzouankeu 1993).…”

Section: Democratic Transition (1991–1992): Institutional Path Dependmentioning

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It's Institutions, Not Theology! Muslim Actors’ Influence on Democratization in Mali

Leininger

2016

Politics and Religion

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This article aims at explaining religious actors' influence on democratic transition in Mali (1987–1992). It argues that it takes more than political theology to effectively influence democratization processes. Although Muslim actors used their political theology during democratization, they had neither the organizational means nor the legitimization to convince others of their preferences for a post-authoritarian institutional set-up. They had very limited influence on the institutions that today are supposed to regulate the relations between religion and the state under democratic rule. In fact, this high path-dependency of institutional factors since the colonial era led to an informalization of non-liberal Muslim politics in the 2000s. It is likely that accepting Muslim actors' demands for institutionalized cooperation between the state and religion during democratic transition would have caused fewer problems for democracy in the long run. The article concludes with general lessons for the study of religion in democratization.

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It's Institutions, Not Theology! Muslim Actors’ Influence on Democratization in Mali

Leininger

2016

Politics and Religion

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“…Also while certain studies have incorporated semipresidential countries in more general studies of turnout (Dettrey & Schwindt-Bayer, 2009;Pacek et al, 2009;Tavits, 2009), to our knowledge there is no study that applies the logic of first and second-order elections to the context of legislative elections under semi-presidentialism. Equally, while there is now a growing literature on semipresidentialism, this work has tended to focus on the effect of this regime type on democratic stability (Elgie and Schleiter 2011;Elgie, 2011;Moestrup, 1999;Skach, 2005) and on relations between the president, the prime minister and the legislature (Protsyk, 2006;Schleiter & Morgan-Jones, 2010;Sedelius & Ekman, 2010). In this article, we focus on the differential effect on turnout of presidential power under semipresidentialism.…”

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Turnout Under Semipresidentialism

Elgie

Fauvelle-Aymar

2012

Comparative Political Studies

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KeywordsTurnout, first and second-order elections, semi-presidentialism, presidential power, legislative elections, presidential elections 2 AbstractWe test the effect of the importance of elections by focusing on turnout at presidential and legislative elections in countries with semi-presidential constitutions. These countries have two potentially first-order elections, but they vary considerably in the powers that are granted to their presidents and prime ministers. We hypothesise that turnout at legislative elections will vary inversely with presidential power and that above a certain degree of presidential power turnout at presidential elections will be higher than turnout at legislative elections. We test these hypotheses on the set of electoral democracies from 1989-2010 inclusive. Controlling for standard social, political and institutional variables, we find strong support for our propositions. The findings show that the importance of the electoral contest is a determining factor for turnout at legislative elections and that the relative importance of presidential and legislative elections can be understood as a continuous scale, and not merely dichotomously. Acknowledgements

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Revolutionary Events in Mali, 2020–2021

Korotayev

Khokhlova

2022

Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

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The role of actors and institutions: The difficulties of democratic survival in Mali and Niger

Cited by 23 publications

References 9 publications

It's Institutions, Not Theology! Muslim Actors’ Influence on Democratization in Mali

It's Institutions, Not Theology! Muslim Actors’ Influence on Democratization in Mali

Turnout Under Semipresidentialism

Revolutionary Events in Mali, 2020–2021

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