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The political paths followed since Independence by the twenty black African countries formerly colonised by France have been very different. Nevertheless, the one-party state was, until the end of the 1980s, a model and point of reference. This chapter sets out to analyse its performance and the way it has changed.
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Cf. K. Ziemer, ‘Verfassung und Politik in Senegal seit der Unabhängigkeit’, Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, 7(2) (1974) 155–73; J-F Bayart, ‘La société politique camerounaise (1982–1986)’, Politique Africaine (22 June 1986) 5–36.
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For Congo, cf. A. Ekondy, Le Congo-Brazzaville (Bern: Peter Lang, 1986), p. 148.
For Gabon, see G Comte, Treize ans d’histoire’, Le Mois en Afrique, 90 (1973) 39–57; for Togo’ K. Ziemer, Demokratisierung in Westafrika? Die politischen Systeme von Senegal, Elfenbeinküste und Togo nach zwei Jahrzehnten Unabhängigkeit (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1984).
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Cf. P. Biya, Pour le Libéralisme communautaire, (Paris: Pierre-Marie Favre ABC, 1987), pp. 47–8; in Gabon, cf. O. N’Dong, ‘Le parti démocratique gabonais et l’Etat’, Penant, 93 (780) (1983) 131–52.
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An exception is Gabon’s PDG, where there is a distinction between ‘activists’ and ‘members’. This makes the PDG a party of cadres, described as the avant-garde of the ‘masses’ — N’Dong, op. cit., p. 135.
K. Ziemer, Politische Parteien in frankophonen Afrika (Meisenheim: Anton Hain, 1978), pp. 208–9).
R. Lemarchand, ‘Political Clientelism and Ethnicity in Tropical Africa: Competing Solidarities in Nation-Building’, American Political Science Review, 66 (1972) 68–90.
On the reforms within the PDCI, cf. Ziemer, Demokratisierung in Westafrika …, pp. 104–9.
Ziemer, op. cit., p. 116, table 12.
T.D. Bakary, ‘Le rôle du status social des candidats dans les législatives de Novembre 1980 en Côte d’Ivoire’, Le Mois en Afrique, 21 (245–6) (1986), 153.
Ziemer, op. cit., pp. 112–3.
T.D. Bakary, ‘La démocratie par le haut en Côte d’Ivoire’, Géopolitique africaine, II (June 1986), 216.
Ibid., p. 214.
Z. Semi-Bi, ‘Genèse de la “démocratie”à l’ivoirienne’. Bilan critique de l’activité parlementaire en Côte d’Ivoire au cours de la VIe législature (1980–1985)’, Le Mois en Afrique, 22 (249–50) (1986), 25 and 27.
Other than the group chairmanships for women’s organisations (OFRDPC) and youth groups (OJRDPC) cf. Bayart, op. cit., p. 20.
Bayart, ibid.
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Ziemer, K. (1995). The African One-Party State. In: Kirk-Greene, A., Bach, D. (eds) State and Society in Francophone Africa since Independence. St Antony’s/Macmillan Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23826-2_7
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