Abstract
The five-year period from 2001 to 2006 provides an opportunity to take stock of the politics of Pax Musevenica as the movement system came to an end and the first multiparty general elections were held in February 2006. What at first appears like political progress is in reality a mirage—Uganda’s transition to democracy (if it can be called that) is in serious trouble. Notwithstanding the first multiparty general elections in twenty years, most political signals in Uganda suggest the possible emergence of a police state in which (a) regime hegemony is consolidated under the control of what is increasingly becoming an imperial presidency,1 and (b) the ruling NRM party is closely aligned to and civil society subsumed by the state apparatus.
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Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle, Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997 ), pp. 55–66.
Anne Mette Kjaer, “‘Old Brooms Can Sweep Too!’: An Overview of Rulers and Public Sector Reforms in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya,” Journal of Modern African Studiesvol. 42, no. 3 (2004): 389–213.
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Rubongoya, J.B. (2007). Convergence not Fundamental Change. In: Regime Hegemony in Museveni’s Uganda. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230603363_6
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