Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda analyses two interrelated outcomes: autocratisation, manifest in the deepening of personalist rule or Musevenism, and the regime resilience that has made Museveni one of Africa''s current-longest surviving rulers. How has this feat been possible, and what has been the trajectory of Museveni''s increasingly autocratic rule? Surveying that trajectory since 1986, the book takes as its primary focus the years since 2005; bringing to the fore the ''autocratic turn'', placing it within a broader comparative lens, and enriching it with comparative references to cases outside of Uganda. While positing the notion of ''autocratic adaptability'' as a defining hallmark of Museveni''s rule, the book examines the factors and forces that have made that adaptability possible, analysing the dynamics around three keys themes: institutions, resources, and coalitions. Through empirical research, each chapter seeks to demonstrate how either one or two of these three variables have functioned in propelling autocratization and assuring regime resilience - producing theoretical and and comparative implications that reach beyond Uganda.

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Dr Moses Khisa is Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, North Carolina State University, USA.

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Autocratization in Contemporary Ugandaanalyses two interrelated outcomes: autocratisation, manifest in the deepening of personalist rule or Musevenism, and the regime resilience that has made Museveni one of Africa's current-longest surviving rulers. How has this feat been possible, and what has been the trajectory of Museveni's increasingly autocratic rule? Surveying that trajectory since 1986, the book takes as its primary focus the years since 2005; bringing to the fore the 'autocratic turn', placing it within a broader comparative lens, and enriching it with comparative references to cases outside of Uganda. While positing the notion of 'autocratic adaptability' as a defining hallmark of Museveni's rule, the book examines the factors and forces that have made that adaptability possible, analysing the dynamics around three keys themes: institutions, resources, and coalitions. Through empirical research, each chapter seeks to demonstrate how either one or two of these three variables have functioned in propelling autocratization and assuring regime resilience - producing theoretical and and comparative implications that reach beyond Uganda.

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PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION: Theory and Trajectory of Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda
Moses Khisa, North Carolina State University, USA

Part I: CLIENTELISM AND RESOURCES

Chapter 1: Political Clientelism and Museveni's Authoritarianism
Nelson Kasfir, Dartmouth College, USA

Chapter 2: "The one and only Revolutionary President": Heritage, Memory and the Personalisation of NRM Rule
Jonathan Fisher, University of Birmingham, UK, and Stephanie Cawood, University of the Free State, South Africa

Chapter 3: Museveni and Government-Foreign Business Relations in the Electricity Sector
Roger Tangri and Andrew M. Mwenda

Part II: CO-OPTATION, COERCION & SOCIAL CONTROL

Chapter 4: State Co-optation of Feminism: Unpacking the Paradoxes of Political Representation
Tabitha Mulyampiti, Makerere University, Uganda

Chapter 5: Obstructing Civil Society: State Backlash, Co-optation and Coping Mechanisms
Mesharch W. Katusiimeh, Kabale University, Uganda

Chapter 6: Uncertainty, Militarism and the Politics of Regime Survival
Sabastian Rwengabo, Centre for Basic Research, Uganda

Chapter 7: The Military as an Instrument of Regime Survival
Gerald Bareebe, York University, Canada

Chapter 8: Institutionalized Arbitrariness as Autocratic Adaptability
Rebecca Tapscott, University of York, UK

Part III: INSTITUTIONS AND COALITION POLITICS

Chapter 9: Between Change and Continuity in the Ruling Coalition
Moses Khisa, North Carolina State University, USA

Chapter 10: Autocratization by Elections
Anders Sjögren, Uppsala University, Sweden

Chapter 11: From Movement to Multiparty: The State and the Role of Political Parties
Frederick Golooba-Mutebi, Uganda Martyrs University, Uganda, and Mesharch W. Katusiimeh, Kabale University, Uganda

CONCLUSION: Uganda at Political Crossroads?
Moses Khisa, North Carolina State University, USA, and Sabastiano Rwengabo, Centre for Basic Research, Uganda

Index