Challenges for the Democratisation Process in Tanzania

A doctoral dissertation by Jonas Ewald analysing Tanzania’s political development since the 1992 reintroduction of the multi-party system, with a focus on the challenges facing democratisation around the 2000 and 2005 elections. The study examines nine institutions grouped into four spheres (state, political, civil, and economic), with particular emphasis on the role of opposition parties. Drawing on primary and secondary sources gathered between 2000 and 2010, Ewald argues that although the formal institutions of liberal democracy have developed gradually, de facto single-party rule has persisted, as illustrated by the 2005 elections in which CCM won 92% of seats. The work revisits the classic debate between liberal and substantive democracy and argues that meaningful democratic consolidation requires substantive, not merely procedural, reform. Internationally distributed by African Books Collective.