o:id
	12771
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12771
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	The moral and the political in African democratization: The code de la famille in Niger's troubled transition
dcterms:subject
	politics
	morality
	democratization
	family law
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25056
dcterms:date
	1996
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116295145 Q116295145
	iwac-reference-0000271
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	This article considers the political struggle surrounding the set of laws known as the code de la famille (family code) during Niger's 1992–93 transition to a democratic system as a means of examining the rise and decline of various social forces provoked by the transition, as well as for what it reveals about the difficulties that have plagued this new democracy. More importantly, the case provides an opportunity to examine the nature of the transformations subsumed under the rubric of ‘transition to democracy’ in Africa, or indeed elsewhere. The article argues that despite the universalist claims of the conception of ‘democracy’ dominant in international for a, the value system which it incorporates in fact frequently conflicts with prevailing indigenous values. Casting democracy as the search for a moral, rather than a political, order has thus complicated ‐ perhaps at times even doomed ‐ transitions to democracy.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/540
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1300
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1080/13510349608403466 10.1080/13510349608403466
bibo:issue
	2
bibo:pageEnd
	68
bibo:pageStart
	41
bibo:volume
	3

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