0 a period when a country or organization does not have a leader
An integral part of institution-building during the interregnum was the movement for education in democracy.
In this way, the period 1800 -1824 could be regarded as an interregnum during which economic change put the old system under severe strain.
Apart from a brief interregnum from 1962-67 he ruled the country.
Multi-party contests in the continent may be experiencing roughly similar fluctuations in participation as during the interregnum and at the onset of the one-party era.
In so far as the theoretical perspectives of the interregnum are to be recaptured, it is the universalism of institutional validation which interests us most.
Above all, continuities with the controversies in earlier decades of the century have been emphasized together with the scars left by civil war, regicide, and the interregnum.
Apart from heralding freedoms of association, assembly, and the media, these multi-party contests in what may be called the ' interregnum ' were hotly fought and full of political interest.
What we now need, then, is a study that will take the progress that has been made in these books and extend it into the civil war and interregnum.
