Healthy Democracies? The potential impact of AIDS on democracy in Southern Africa
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2003-04
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Institute for Security Studies Papers
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University of Cape Town
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Social scientists are only beginning to understand the range of potential impacts the HIV/AIDS pandemic may have on Southern African societies. Belatedly, researchers began compiling evidence about the demographic, economic and social impacts of the disease on infected people, their households and communities, national populations and national economies. They have only recently begun to develop propositions about the impacts of HIV/AIDS on the broader processes of governance. However, the implications of the pandemic for the survival and consolidation of democratic government, in particular, remain largely unexamined. This paper attempts to systematise emerging thinking about the various economic, social and political consequences of HIV/AIDS in the context of political science's best available knowledge about the factors that lead to the consolidation of democracy.
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Mattes, R. (2003). Healthy Democracies? The potential impact of AIDS on democracy in Southern Africa. ISS Paper 71. Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies.