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Manning, Conflict Management and Elite Habituation in Postwar Democracy What
accounts for the durability of the postwar democratic political settlement
in Mozambique, one of the world's
most unlikely success stories? The fragile postwar political system in
Mozambique owes its survival to the coexistence of two contradictory
tracks for the management of political conflict. The first comprises the
formal processes and institutions of majoritarian democracy. The second
consists of informal elite bargaining processes involving the top
leadership of the two major parties. This dualistic system has so far
succeeded in accommodating contrasting elite notions of democracy and
system legitimacy and in compensating for actors' asymmetrical levels of trust and political capacity. |