TY - JOUR

T1 - Деколонизация юга Африки в свете концепции коллегиально разделенной власти

T2 - Decolonization of Southern Africa in Light of Collegially Shared Power Conception

AU - Savelyev, Dmitriy

N1 - Савельев Д. Б. Деколонизация юга Африки в свете концепции коллегиально разделенной власти / Д. Б. Савельев // Социологическое обозрение, 2025. - № 24(1). - С. 132-156. DOI: 10.17323/1728-192X-2025-1-132-156

PY - 2025

Y1 - 2025

N2 - The formation model of collegially shared power (CSP) through the emergence of internal political forces parity in the conditions of common external geopolitical threats is tested on the material of Southern African countries in the Gnd half of the GNth century. The approach itself is based on the ‘geopolitical theory of collegial power’ by the American sociologist R. Collins, which describes the processes of formation of new political systems with ‘checks and balances’ through the centralization of military coalitions. A qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of decolonization cases in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland is conducted on L dependent variables: presence/absence of coalition governments, intra-elite repression, government accountability to parliament and the right of the head of state to appoint members of parliament. Decolonization is interpreted as a transition to ‘black majority rule’ in which the population of a country has the ability, at least nominally, to approve and remove governments through general elections. The results of the analysis show that the previously derived model does not fully describe the cases under study, but, with the exception of the Botswana case, the emergence of domestic political forces parity during decolonization does correlate with high levels of CSP. It also reveals that the theory of CSP should take into account the experience of political systems with a dominant party. It is concluded that the analysis of the new sampling allowed both to partially conPrm the results obtained earlier and to reveal certain limitations of the ‘geopolitical theory of collegial power’.

AB - The formation model of collegially shared power (CSP) through the emergence of internal political forces parity in the conditions of common external geopolitical threats is tested on the material of Southern African countries in the Gnd half of the GNth century. The approach itself is based on the ‘geopolitical theory of collegial power’ by the American sociologist R. Collins, which describes the processes of formation of new political systems with ‘checks and balances’ through the centralization of military coalitions. A qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) of decolonization cases in Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland is conducted on L dependent variables: presence/absence of coalition governments, intra-elite repression, government accountability to parliament and the right of the head of state to appoint members of parliament. Decolonization is interpreted as a transition to ‘black majority rule’ in which the population of a country has the ability, at least nominally, to approve and remove governments through general elections. The results of the analysis show that the previously derived model does not fully describe the cases under study, but, with the exception of the Botswana case, the emergence of domestic political forces parity during decolonization does correlate with high levels of CSP. It also reveals that the theory of CSP should take into account the experience of political systems with a dominant party. It is concluded that the analysis of the new sampling allowed both to partially conPrm the results obtained earlier and to reveal certain limitations of the ‘geopolitical theory of collegial power’.

KW - деколонизация

KW - демо кратизация

KW - каче ственный сравнительный анализ

KW - коллегиально разделенная власть

KW - политические режимы

KW - разделение властей

KW - транзитология

KW - юг Африки

KW - Southern Africa

KW - collegially shared power

KW - decolonization

KW - democratization

KW - political regimes

KW - qualitative comparative analysis

KW - separation of powers

KW - transitology

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U2 - 10.17323/1728-192X-2025-1-132-156

DO - 10.17323/1728-192X-2025-1-132-156

M3 - статья

VL - 24

SP - 132

EP - 156

JO - Russian Sociological Review

JF - Russian Sociological Review

SN - 1728-1938

IS - 1

ER -