A Basic Human Rights Approach to Democracy in Uganda

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Title:	A Basic Human Rights Approach to Democracy in Uganda
Author:	Dicklitch, Susan
Year:	2002
Periodical:	Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Volume:	20
Issue:	2
Period:	July
Pages:	203-222
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Uganda
Subjects:	democracy political repression no-party systems human rights Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence
External links:	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0258900022000005179 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=1VLV4GXL1A6LXVDGQ0AT
Abstract:	Instead of focusing exclusively on the lack of multiparty democracy in Uganda, the author takes a human rights approach to the successes and failures of political transition in Uganda. She argues that the nature of Movement power, a weak and fragmented civil society, and donor support of the Movement regime contribute to the lack of a rights-protective regime and a rights-respective society. The Movement system has become corrupt, focused on the consolidation of Movement rule rather than State legitimacy, and increasingly intolerant of dissent. It has allowed for elite entrenchment and the prioritization of unequal economic growth over democratization. This fundamentally undermines the prospects for a consolidation of democracy. Bibliogr., notes, ref.