“They Have Left Us in a Hole”
A conceptual distinction is made between minimal and substantial democracy, where the latter concept aims to integrate constitutional minimalistically defined democracy with a notion of political equality in actual practice. In this perspective, ‘substantial democratisation’ and ‘development’ are li...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/apad, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Français |
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Bulletin de l’APAD
2010
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | A conceptual distinction is made between minimal and substantial democracy, where the latter concept aims to integrate constitutional minimalistically defined democracy with a notion of political equality in actual practice. In this perspective, ‘substantial democratisation’ and ‘development’ are linked to each other. The argument is illustrated through a diachronic case study of a village in Northern Guinea-Bissau. Minimal democratisation through national multi-party elections since the early 1990s has resulted neither in substantial democratization, nor in development in the village. Some limit to people’s patience is indicated by the opening in 2006 of a primary school in the village, run by the parents to substitute for the public school which closed in 1989. The initiative can be seen as an emergency attempt at self-empowerment by a local community in dire need of development. Whether sustainable or not, it concretises the core issue of horizontal self-organisation from below. |
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