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            Efforts to promote a ‘democratic transition’ in Congo go back to April 1990 when Mobutu declared the end of the Second Republic. Since then, and despite the changing regimes and conditions experienced under Mobutu and the Kabilas, father and son, the rhetoric of democratisation has had little relationship to the realities of power struggles. The authoritarianism of regimes in Kinshasa, the covetousness of the country's neighbours, the paralysis of opposition groups, the marginalisation of civil society's forces ‐ all have combined to ensure that transition remains stalled or intransitive.

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            crea20
            CREA
            Review of African Political Economy
            Review of African Political Economy
            0305-6244
            1740-1720
            September/December 2002
            : 29
            : 93-94
            : 399-410
            Affiliations
            a Institut Africain , Tervuren , Belgium E-mail: gdevillers@ 123456africamuseum.be.
            b Institut Africain , Tervuren , Belgium E-mail: jean.oma-sombo@ 123456africamuseum.be.
            Article
            8704629 Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 29, No. 93-94, September/December 2002, pp. 399-410
            10.1080/03056240208704629
            29ce3e9d-d229-4003-8376-4e0e36e43d3e

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            Figures: 0, Tables: 0, References: 15, Pages: 12
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            Sociology,Economic development,Political science,Labor & Demographic economics,Political economics,Africa

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