Pedro Seabra and Ana Lúcia Sá publish article on “arrested democratisation” in Equatorial Guinea

CEI-Iscte researchers Pedro Seabra and Ana Lúcia Sá are the authors of the article International organisations and arrested democratisation: Equatorial Guinea and the accession to the CPLP, recently published in Contemporary Politics, a leading Q1 journal in Political Science.

The article examines the impact of authoritarian states joining international organisations of a democratic nature, focusing on Equatorial Guinea and its accession to the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) in 2014. Although presented at the time as a promising first step towards democratisation, a decade later there has been no significant domestic progress.

The authors argue that such cases of “arrested democratisation” call for closer analysis of the survival strategies of authoritarian regimes and of the quality of the institutional mechanisms for democratic inducement offered by international organisations.

The work contributes to the debate on the limits of external influence on the political transformation of authoritarian regimes.

Read the full article here.

Originally published by CEI-Iscte.