Author | : Georges/Sembe Bakaly |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2006-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1427611491 |
Author | : Georges/Sembe Bakaly |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2006-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1427611491 |
Author | : Nic Cheeseman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2015-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316239489 |
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often failed, as well as how they could succeed. Nic Cheeseman grapples with some of the most important questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether international actors should try and promote democracy abroad, how to design political systems that manage ethnic diversity, and why democratic governments often make bad policy decisions. Beginning in the colonial period with the introduction of multi-party elections and ending in 2013 with the collapse of democracy in Mali and South Sudan, the book describes the rise of authoritarian states in the 1970s; the attempts of trade unions and some religious groups to check the abuse of power in the 1980s; the remarkable return of multiparty politics in the 1990s; and finally, the tragic tendency for elections to exacerbate corruption and violence.
Author | : Inge Amundsen |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 178897252X |
Analysing political corruption as a distinct but separate entity from bureaucratic corruption, this timely book separates these two very different social phenomena in a way that is often overlooked in contemporary studies. Chapters argue that political corruption includes two basic, critical and related processes: extractive and power-preserving corruption.
Author | : Mawere, Munyaradzi |
Publisher | : Langaa RPCIG |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2015-10-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9956763004 |
Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in the view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remains a perennial question why some decades after political independence in Africa the continent continues experiencing bad governance, lagging behind socioeconomically, and its democracy questionable. We admit that a plethora of theories and reasons, including iniquitous and malicious ones, have been conjured in an attempt to explain and answer the questions as to why Africa seems to be lagging behind other continents in issues pertaining to good governance, democracy and socio-economic development. Yet, none of the theories and reasons proffered so far seems to have provided enduring solutions to Africa’s diverse complex problems and predicaments. This book dissects and critically examines the matrix of Africa’s multifaceted problems on governance, democracy and development in an attempt to proffer enduring solutions to the continent’s long-standing political and socio-economic dilemmas and setbacks.
Author | : Nic Cheeseman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2018-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107148243 |
Offers new research on the vital importance of institutions, such as presidential term-limits in the African democratisation processes.
Author | : Alice Hills |
Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Pub |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781555877156 |
The use and abuse of political power in Africa has been closely related to the role and function of the police. This study explores the impact of cautious moves toward liberalization across the continent on both policing systems and the relationship between those systems and national development.
Author | : Catherine Boone |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2014-02-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107040698 |
In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts, and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities, and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state authority is deeply embedded in land regimes, drawing farmers, ethnic insiders and outsiders, lineages, villages, and communities into direct and indirect relationships with political authorities at different levels of the state apparatus. The analysis shows how property institutions - institutions that define political authority and hierarchy around land - shape dynamics of great interest to scholars of politics, including the dynamics of land-related competition and conflict, territorial conflict, patron-client relations, electoral cleavage and mobilization, ethnic politics, rural rebellion, and the localization and "nationalization" of political competition.
Author | : Lauren Honig |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2022-08-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1009123408 |
This book provides new insight into the high-stakes struggle to control land in the Global South through the lens of land titling in Zambia and Senegal. Based on extensive fieldwork, it shows how chiefs and communities challenge the state, in an era of increasing scarcity and booming global land markets.
Author | : Giovanni Carbone |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2020-03-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108423736 |
An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.