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100 1 $aMokoli, Mondonga M.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no90021313
245 14 $aThe transition towards democracy in post-1990 Zaire :$bcontradictions and dilemma /$cMondonga M. Mokoli.
260 $aSan Francisco, Calif. :$bInternational Scholars Publications,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axi, 199 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gI.$tIntroduction: The Linkage Between the Transition Period and Democracy in Post-1990 Zaire --$gII.$tCapitalism and Main Historical Routes of the Transition Toward Democracy.$tWhat Capitalism is to Democracy.$tMain Historical Routes of the Transition Toward Democracy.$tWhat Democracy Is and What It Is Not --$gIII.$tThe Roots of the Transition Toward Democracy in Post-1990 Zaire.$tThe Colonial Regime.$tThe 1960-1965 First Republic in Zaire.$tPost-1965 Zaire's Second Republic.$tPost-1965's Zaire Development Policy, Its Results, Reactions, and Counter-reactions --$gIV.$tThe Transition Toward Democracy in Post-1990 Zaire: Contradictions and Dilemma.$tPolitical Parties.$tGovernment.$tAdministration and Management.$tSovereign National Conference.$tPolitical Economy.$tStandard of Living.$tAbout the Elections.$tRefugee Crisis.$tOverall Results.$tCauses --$gV.$tConclusion: Lessons Learned and Prospects.
520 $aThis timely book, written by a Zairian sociologist, provides a useful evaluation of the transition from one party dictatorship to multiparty democracy in Post-1990 Zaire. The in-depth causes of this failed transition are rooted in the Belgian colonialism, and more importantly in the nature and the role of the post-colonial state that Mobutu Sese Seko and his associates have engineered and implemented in Zaire for more than three decades and that is now disintegrating into civil war and rebellion.
520 8 $aThe book calls for free market rationality and socio-economic development at the grass roots level as the prime mover that can recreate, empower and free the Zairian civil society in order to put the democratic transition back on track. This is a necessary and a sufficient condition that will enable this civil society to make appropriate choices of its representatives, who can design and set up social structures conductive to sustainable democracy.
651 0 $aCongo (Democratic Republic)$xPolitics and government$y1960-1997.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85149578
650 00 $aDemocracy$zCongo (Democratic Republic)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009123128
852 00 $bleh$hJQ3616$i.M65 1997