Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-510) and index.

State, conflict, and democracy in Africa / Richard Joseph -- Third wave of democratization in Africa: ambiguities and contradictions / Crawford Young -- Rethinking democratic transitions: lessons from Eastern and Southern Africa / John W. Harbeson -- Reconfiguration of power in late twentieth-century Africa / Richard Joseph -- Economic bases of democratization / Robert H. Bates -- Globalization and African democracy / Nicolas van de Walle -- Crisis management and the making of "choiceless democracies" / Thandika Mkandawire -- "Mauritius miracle": democracy, institutions and economic policy / Deborah Brautigam -- African politics: the next generation / Richard L. Sklar -- Governance and the reconstitution of political order / Goran Hyden -- Senegal's enlarged presidential majority: deepening democracy or detour? / Linda J. Beck -- Testing democracy in Benin: experiments in institutional reform / Bruce A. Magnusson -- Race, class, and neopatrimonialism in Zimbabwe / Scott D. Taylor -- Role of citizenship laws in multiethnic societies: evidence from Africa / Jeffrey Herbst -- Local governance, democracy and development / Dele Olowu -- Ethnic politics in Africa: change and continuity / Marina Ottaway -- Ethnic insecurity, peace agreements, and state building / Donald Rothchild --State, civil society, and genocide in Rwanda / Timothy Longman -- Autocracy, violence, and ethnomilitary rule in Nigeria / Richard Joseph -- First look at second elections in Africa, with illustrations from Zambia / Michael Bratton and Daniel N. Posner -- Ghana: the challenges of consolidating democracy / E. Gyimah-Boadi -- Challenges to democratic consolidation in Namibia / Gretchen Bauer -- State, conflict, and democracy in Africa: the complex process of renewal / Adebayo Olukoshi.

This volume explores the important dimensions of state formation and erosion, social conflict, and the gains and setbacks of democratization in contemporary Africa. It looks at the dominant patterns of political restructuring since the upheavals of the early 1990s.