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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2012
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
GIGA Working Papers No. 197
Verlag: 
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
Zusammenfassung: 
In the early 1990s most African countries carried out extensive reforms of their electoral regimes. Adopting a historical institutionalist approach, this paper critically examines the role of institutional path dependence in accounting for the setup of six African electoral regimes. For this purpose, we distinguish between different types of path dependence. The paper further analyzes the extent to which the development of electoral institutions contributed to the regime-type outcome (democratic/hybrid/autocratic). The main emphasis herein is on so-called hybrid regimes; in other words, regimes existing in the grey zone between democracy and autocracy. The paper finds that, while institutional path dependence has a limited but important impact on the setup of the electoral regimes, it is ultimately the process of decision-making during critical junctures that accounts for the regime type outcome. Hybrid regimes lack long-term institutional ownership.
Schlagwörter: 
hybrid regimes
democratization
historical institutionalism
electoral institutions
Africa
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