| Автор | Carbone, Giovanni M. |
| Дата выпуска | 2005 |
| dc.description | Post-conflict elections in Mozambique, held in 1994, 1999 and 2004, established a formally competitive and pluralistic system. This paper examines the countryʼs emerging two-party system as an essential feature affecting prospects for democratic deepening and consolidation. The condition for political parties to actually help the establishment of democratic politics is their development as durable, socially rooted, country-wide effective and legitimate organisations. The paper contends that the current party system has indeed been a major instrument for political expression and for the channelling and peaceful management of conflicts. It shows how both Frelimo and Renamo – and the competition between them – have deep-seated historical origins and well-established regional roots. Yet, a number of aspects concerning the Mozambican party system negatively affect the deepening of democratic politics: the legitimacy of the party system is weakened by post-conflict polarisation and uncertain mutual recognition; the ethno-regional entrenchment of the two main parties bestows a communal connotation on electoral competition; and most importantly, the party system remains unbalanced and unevenly institutionalised, with Frelimoʼs disciplined and fundamentally institutionalised organisation opposed by a strongly personalistic and weakly organised Renamo, which struggles to operate within state institutions and to accommodate internal differences. |
| Издатель | Cambridge University Press |
| Название | Continuidade na renovação? Ten years of multiparty politics in Mozambique: roots, evolution and stabilisation of the Frelimo–Renamo party systemA fellowship from the Economic and Social Research Council (no. T026271223) made research for this paper possible as part of the Crisis States Programme of the LSE. The author is grateful to Carrie Manning, for making her unpublished work available to him, and to Luis De Brito, Guilherme Mbilane and Miguel De Brito for discussions on some of the issues dealt with in the paper. |
| DOI | 10.1017/S0022278X05001035 |
| Electronic ISSN | 1469-7777 |
| Print ISSN | 0022-278X |
| Журнал | The Journal of Modern African Studies |
| Том | 43 |
| Первая страница | 417 |
| Последняя страница | 442 |
| Аффилиация | Carbone Giovanni M.; Università degli Studi di Milano |
| Выпуск | 3 |
