The Fate of Africa's Democratic Experiments: Elites and Institutions

CONTRIBUTORS

CONTRIBUTORS MICHAEL CHEGE is Associate Professor of Political Science and former director of the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida in Gainesville. In 2004–2005 he served as a United Nations Development Policy Advisor to the newly elected democratic government of President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya. He has authored articles in such journals as Foreign Affairs, Journal of Modern African Studies, Transition, Journal of Democracy, Current History, and Journal of Development Studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript on governance in Africa. JOHN F. CLARK is Associate Professor and Chairperson in the Department of International Relations at Florida International University. He is coeditor (with David Gardinier) of Political Reform in Francophone Africa and editor of The African Stakes of the Congo War. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Journal of Modern African Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, African Affairs, Journal of Democracy, and Comparative Studies in Society and History. JOSHUA B. FORREST is founding director of the Kerr Institute of African History, Culture and Politics at La Roche College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . He is author of four books, including most recently Lineages of State Fragility: Rural Civil Society in Guinea-Bissau and Subnationalism in Africa: Ethnicity, Alliances, and Politics. He has also published numerous articles on Guinea-Bissauan and Namibian politics, on state collapse, and on the theory and practice of African democratization. ABDOURAHMANE IDRISSA is in the Ph.D. program in the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida. A native of Niger, he holds 313 two degrees in philosophy as well as a graduate D.E.A. degree in Political Science from the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Kansas. He has published articles on both philosophy and politics in journals in Senegal and Niger. BRUCE A. MAGNUSSON is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He has written on democratization in Benin for Comparative Politics, l’Afrique Politique, and (with John Clark) Comparative Studies in Society and History. He has also contributed chapters to such books as Constructivist Comparative Politics and State, Conflict and Democracy in Africa. His current research focuses on questions of justice and security in democratizing states in Africa. CARRIE MANNING is Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is author of The Politics of Peace in Mozambique : Post-Conflict Democratization, 1992–2000 and has published articles on democracy and conflict resolution in Mozambique and Angola in numerous journals , including Democratization, Comparative Politics, Current History, Journal of Southern African Studies, and Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. RICHARD R. MARCUS is Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville. His publications on democratization, local participation in democracy, and local environmental governance in Madagascar have appeared in Current History, Afrika Spectrum, Journal of Asian and African Studies , Human Ecology, African Studies Quarterly, and such edited volumes as A Decade of Democracy in Africa and Achieving Sustainable Development. ANDREAS MEHLER is Director of the Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg, Germany. He has published extensively in English, French, and German , on conflict prevention, democratization, and elections in Francophone Africa. These include articles in Africa Spektrum and l’Afrique Politique, and several monographs, including (with Michael Lund and Céline Moyroud) Peace-Building and Conflict Prevention in Developing Countries and (with Claude Ribaux) Crisis Prevention and Conflict Management in Technical Cooperation: An Overview of the National and International Debate. DAVID J. SIMON is currently Lecturer in Political Science at Yale University. He has published on economic conditions and voting patterns in Zambia in Comparative Political Studies and Commonwealth and Comparative Politics. In addition to democracy in Zambia, his current research focuses on the politics of aid and debt relief in Africa. LEONARDO A. VILLALÓN is Director of the Center for African Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He Contributors 314 is author of Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick and co-editor (with Phillip A. Huxtable) of The African State at a Critical Juncture: Between Disintegration and Reconfiguration. His articles have also appeared in such journals as Comparative Politics, Democratization, African Affairs, and African Studies Review. PETER VONDOEPP is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University...