Critical review on Bratton, Michael. 2007. "The Democracy Barometers: FORMAL VERSUS INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS IN AFRICA." Journal of Democracy 18 (3): 95-110.

Formal versus informal institution in Africa

The start of the article is fine, and the reason is that the author has given comprehensive detail on the political culture of that country. He has given information about some of the political scientists and their political institutes and their impact on the citizens and other people of the whole continent.  The author has taken this article in a smooth way by completely describing the facts about the action of political members. He has also mentioned some important quotes about different politicians.

Then after this, he has described their words in a proper way in different paragraphs. Through just reading such paragraphs, you can easily judge the comparison of formal and informal institutions.  He has also described the impact of such action from the politicians on the local people. He also has mention different quotes of politicians in a proper way. This shows that he has taken this article in a comprehensive way and mentioning each point related to such institutes. Bratton in his journal article The Democracy Barometers: arometers: FORMAL VERSUS INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS IN AFRICA, Journal of the democracy is sure about all the aspects which are discussed in the journal.

As stated by Bratton (2007), some important data and its measurement are very significant which is mentioned in the journal. This section of the paper is extremely important, and it must be perfect with accurate values. By analysing the paper, it can be noted that the author has provided complete data with detail. This section is almost about 1 and a half pages that show that each value of the data is evaluated properly with unique results. The best thing about this paper is that the data and measurement section is given with complete detail.

After this, the next section is related to the trend in attitudes that are towards democracy. The major concern of Bratton (2007) about this study for the researcher is that by just reading this section, he can easily choose important points and also able to do further research. The author has described each and every point in a clear form for the researcher. This section is written in the storytelling form that a positive point for the author.  Everything in this section is quite clear and understandable for the researcher.

Moreover, the author has also made a proper table for the trends in attitudes. Through the help of this table, it will be quite easy for the researcher to evaluate the response of different factors in different countries of Africa. It will be quite easy to evaluate the data with this table because the author has described everything in the percentage form. This is also a good point about the author.

In the next section of the paper, the author has described each and every trend in the form of words. This is the best point for the researcher because, through this, he can easily able to make the report and analyse the trends in a proper way (Bratton 2007).

Bratton described that the proper explanation of the democratic attitudes in different countries of Africa is the major e. This section is also well written by the author. Then after this, the author again uses a different kind of table for explaining other facts about the topic. He is also providing an explanation about each table and graph. Through this, the researcher can be easily able to make important points from this article. Lastly, the author also provides notes for the ease of future researchers (Bratton 2007).