Panser et repenser le développement politique en Afrique : : les angles morts du régime politique rwandais, sous P. Kagamé

Charlie Mballa

doi:10.35305/cl.vi22.122

Authors

Charlie Mballa University of Alberta, Canada.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35305/cl.vi22.122

Keywords:

Authoritarianism, Democracy in Africa, Political development, Political legitimacy, Social change

Abstract

If the market economy and liberal democracy are the preconditions for development (Camdessus 1991), why are some countries poorer than before they embarked on democratic transition processes? Based on some of the work of theorists of democracy and "developmentalism", including S. Lipset, the article questions the capacity of traditionally used criteria of democracy to account, intellectually and empirically, for social and political change. By testing the classification criteria and methodology of certain democracy indices, it explores the heuristic and even methodological relevance of the concept of legitimacy, a blind spot in the literature on political development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The article is situated at the intersection of normative analysis (dynamics of legitimacy and just authority viewed from the point of view of what is accepted) and positive analysis of democracy in a transition context. Specifically, it examines how best to measure the effects and impacts of power, while also looking at the values and norms that should prevail in assessing structural transformations in Africa and the conditions that should be taken into account in selecting countries deemed "politically like-minded."

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