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| Title: | Deepening democracy through multipartyism: the bumpy road to Uganda's 2011 elections |
| Author: | Makara, Sabiti |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Periodical: | Afrika Spectrum (ISSN 0002-0397) |
| Volume: | 45 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 81-94 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Uganda |
| Subjects: | democracy elections |
| External link: | https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/329 |
| Abstract: | The 2011 elections in Uganda will be one of several elections (and the second-ever multiparty election) organized by the National Resistance Movement (NRM) since it captured power in 1986. Despite regular elections since the 1990s, the quality and outcomes of these elections have remained subjects of debate. Democracy has remained elusive in Uganda despite the re-introduction of multiparty politics. Incumbency advantages, manipulation and unconstitutional use of State resources and apparatuses, and removal of the constitutional limits on the term of the presidency have combined to hamper the effective growth of multiparty politics and democracy in the country. The question is: Does electioneering necessarily produce democratic governance or does it simply create the conditions and norms necessary for the institutionalization of democratic rule? In particular, does the existence of multiparty politics necessarily deepen democratic governance? This paper stresses that despite the return of multiparty politics in Uganda, democracy has not been consolidated nor have elections acted as effective instruments for advancing democratization in the country. Bibiogr., sum. in English and German. [Journal abstract] |
