caa a22 4500 378885502 CHVBK 20180305123441.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040318xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1535-1653.1118 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1535-1653.1118 Battera Federico 1Dept. of Political Sciences, University of Trieste, fbattera@yahoo.com State- & Democracy-Building in Sub-Saharan Africa: the Case of Somaliland - A Comparative Perspective [Elektronische Daten] [Federico Battera] This paper presents an overview of the trajectory of the State and Democracy system in Somaliland (former Northwest region of Somalia). It investigates the historical process and its nature since the 1991 declaration of independence. It analyzes the character of the State construction, its political culture and its main constraints and needs in a comparative perspective with Somalia. Since 1991, Somaliland has been able to re-build a consensual system rooted in its own culture by combining imported institutions with informal notions of governance. Bad legacies of the past – warlordism, authoritarianism, predatory attitudes, etc. – and the introduction of multipartitism could reverse the development and consolidation of the democracy and of a democratic culture. However, such system will endure if it will maintain its main features: flexibility, localism, and consensualism. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Comparative Law nationallicence State-Building nationallicence Democracy-Building nationallicence Civil Society nationallicence Constitution-making nationallicence Conflict resolution nationallicence Divided Societies nationallicence Warlordism nationallicence Local Political Models nationallicence Global Jurist Frontiers De Gruyter 4/1(2004-03-18) 4:1 2004 4 gj https://doi.org/10.2202/1535-1653.1118 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1535-1653.1118 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Battera Federico 1Dept. of Political Sciences, University of Trieste, fbattera@yahoo.com NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Global Jurist Frontiers De Gruyter 4/1(2004-03-18) 4:1 2004 4 gj CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter