Decalo, Samuel <br/><br/>
Africa, the lost decades  [Texte imprimé] / 
by Samuel Decalo 
 - Gainesville ;  London :  Florida Academic Press,  c2012 
 - 1 vol. (352 p.) :  ill. ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Military coups and military regimes in Africa -- Praetorianism, corporate grievances and idiosyncratic factors in African military hierarchies -- African personal dictatorships -- Modalities of civil-military stability in Africa -- Regionalism, political decay, and civil strife in Chad -- The morphology of radical African military rule in Africa -- Ideological rhetoric and scientific socialism in Benin and Congo/Brazzaville -- Socio-economic constraints on radical action in the People's Republic of Congo -- The process, prospects, and constraints of democratization in Africa -- The future of participatory democracy in Africa -- Coups and military regimes 1974-2004: has anything 325 really changed? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781890357320 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Military government Democracy Civil-military relations Coups d'état Africa Africa 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>322.5096