Oxford University Press Publishes Article by Professor Douglas Yates

Oxford University Press has recently published Douglas Yates's article on "Democracy and Authoritarianism in Sub-Saharan Africa" in the Political Science section of the Oxford Bibliographies Collection. In his article, Professor Yates provided some of the most cited authors, journals, and websites on democratic transition, democratic consolidation, political parties, elections, public opinion, civil society, and social movements in the literature on democratization in Africa as well as traditional rulers, personal rule, one-party regimes, military rule, ethnic politics, and françafrique in the literature on African authoritarianism.

Rick Valelly, editor-in-chief of the Oxford Bibliographies Political Science series, writes about Professor Yates's article: "This is a very comprehensive, lively and genuinely engaging entry. The discussion of Françafrique is among many elements that distinguish it and that will strike readers as particularly fresh and unusual; another is the surprising fact of initial and rapid adoption of democracy during the Third Wave. Yet another is the discussion of the Afrobarometer data. The attention to the leaders in the field and the conceptual problems with which they have wrestled will encourage new entrants into this important area of scholarship. I'm certain, too, that policymakers will find this entry exceptionally valuable".

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