The Democratic Crisis in The Gambia: A Case Study in the Second Republic from 1996 – 2014

[[abstract]]甘比亞自1965年2月18日脫離英國獨立之後，國家以多黨制的方式來治理，受到周圍國家的推崇，也肯定其對於人權以及民主價值的保障，然而，1994年的武裝政變結束了這般榮景，新政府挾此優勢執政了兩年。在兩年後甘比亞迎來第二次共和，但是這個國家在被視為民主的先驅已經是過去的事了。 此研究主要針對的是找出甘比亞近期在第二共和時期面臨的的民主危機，關注政府機構以及其行為以及其他國家民主扮演關鍵角色的因素，像是，警察、軍隊、新聞自由、政黨、選舉制度以及檢視政府中三權的制衡，因此，本研究使用網路問卷收集總共325筆可用資料進行分析，取樣對象包含甘比亞本地以及在海外的國民。[[abstract]]The Gambia is a small country that has survived with only two republics since it became independent from the Great Britain on the 18 February 1965. After independence, the country was governed by a multiple-party democracy and was highly respected within the sub-region and the world for the respect of human and people’s rights and its democratic values until in July 1994 when the first republic came to an end by a military coup which stayed in power for two years. The birth of the second republic came two years later. Since then, the Gambia’s democratic reputation faced so many crises. This research is geared to find out the democratic crisis that the country is currently facing since it turned over to its second republic by looking into various institutions of the government and its behaviors and the other parameters or features that plays key important role to the democratization of any given country such as; the administrative neutrality, the civilian control of the military, freedom of expression, the competitive party system, the free and fair electoral system, and the checks and balances between the three branches of the government. However, the data were collected through a self-administered questionnaires survey and a total of 325 usable responses from the Gambians at home and in abroad.[[note]]碩