Transnational Mobilization and Domestic Regime Change

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2. Introduction

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3. Transnational Dimensions of Democratization

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4. From Repression to Democratic Reforms in Kenya and Uganda

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5. Successful Challenges to Authoritarian Rule

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6. Diverging Paths of Regime Change: Electoralist and Participatory Reforms

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7. How Transnational Activism Undermines Democratization

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8. The Limits of Multipartyism

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9. Conclusions: Transnational Mobilization Beyond Multiparty Rule

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10. Back Matter

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Africa represents the next frontier of the transnational politics of democratization. Recent efforts to promote human rights and democracy have yielded a mixed record of success. A comparison of regime change in Kenya and Uganda reveals how principled interventions have unintentional adverse effects on the democratic reform process.

• democracy
• democratization
• human rights
• intervention
• politics
• reforms
• development policy

• Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, UK

  Hans Peter Schmitz

HANS PETER SCHMITZ is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University (New York), USA. Previously, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Human Rights Programme at the University of Chicago. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. His previous work was published in the International Studies Review, the Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, Vereinten Nationen as well as several edited volumes.

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