Political Trajectories of Post-Socialist Africa: Intra-Party Competition and Rule of Law in Political Liberalization

• In Event: Regime Change and Regime Choice

Brief Overview

Using former socialist one-party states in Africa as evidence, this paper argues that intra-party competition and rule of law can be used to explain why different countries have followed different political trajectories since 1992.

Author

• Patrick E Conley, Kenyon College