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Author : Nelson Kasfir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136323119
This work critically reviews the conventional uses of the concept of civil society in promoting democratization in Africa and suggests omissions and modifications are needed for more accurate analyses.
Author : Abadir M. Ibrahim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319183831
This book tests many of the assumptions, hypotheses, and conclusions connected with the presumed role of civil society organizations in the democratization of African countries. Taking a comparative approach, it looks at countries that have successfully democratized, those that are stuck between progress and regression, those that have regressed into dictatorship, and those that are currently in transitional flux and evaluates what role, if any, civil society has played in each instance. The countries discussed—South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt and Tunisia—represent a diverse set of social and political circumstances and different levels of democratic achievement, providing a rich set of case studies. Each sample state also offers an internal comparison, as each has historically experienced different stages of democratization. Along the course of each case study, the book also considers the effect that other traditionally studied factors, such as culture, colonization, economic development and foreign aid, may have had on individual attempts at democratization. The first extensive work on civil society and democratization in Africa, the book adds new insights to the applicability of democratization theory in a non-Western context, both filling a gap in and adding to the existing universal scholarship. This book will be useful for scholars of political science, economics, sociology and African studies, as well as human rights activists and policy makers in the relevant geographical areas.
Author : John Willis Harbeson,Donald S. Rothchild,Naomi Chazan
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1555876412
This text examines the potential value of the concept of civil society for enhancing the current understanding of state-society relations in Africa. The authors review the meanings of civil society in political philosophy, as well as alternative approaches to employing the concept in African settings. Considering both the patterns of emerging civil society in Africa and issues relating to its further development, they give particular emphasis to the cases of Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zaire.
Author : African Association of Political Science
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 086543638X
This book is a study of the issues of democracy and democratization in Africa, with emphasis on the roles of civil society and the state in the democratic transition. After clarifying the meaning of democracy as a universal principle of governance and the applicability of the concept to Africa, the book examines the major problems facing the democratic transition on the continent as a whole.
Author : Mbaye Lo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789994296835
This book examines the liberal conception of civil society and its applicability to the context of Africa. Although it acknowledges the reality of civil society as a paradigmatic way of thinking about democracy and good governance, it questions the conception of civil society and its use for development in Africa. The book argues that if the concept of civil society is to be successful, it has to capture fully and correctly most aspects of Africa's associational life without leaving out major portions of the socio-political mosaic. Only then, can the concept of civil society be a legitimate tool for recognizing groups and associations and organizing their problems and claims for a sustainable democracy. The African experience is different from the liberal context of civil society. The liberal argument of civil society springs from the Western conception of state-society relationships. In this convention, power, authoritarianism and exploitation are the exclusive property of the state, while society belongs to the realm of freedom, rights, and liberty To examine this argument, this study uses Senegal as a case study to explore how the idiosyncrasy of societal development in this country has constructed and produced different types of associational life and how they fit within the liberal conception of civil society. Senegal was selected as an ideal case because it is widely regarded as a vibrant model of civil society and democracy. In essence, the question is whether the civil society that exists in Senegal conforms to the liberal argument of civil. The findings reveal that, in Senegal, civil society differs in many forms from the liberal propositions.
Author : Abdalla Bujra,Said Adejumobi
Publisher : OSSREA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123138393
A study of Africa's current strides towards democracy, good governance and the interposition of the civil society in the process. The authors identify and delineates the phases of these processes and examine key theoretical and methodological issues of the governance project. Also includes analysis of hitherto neglected issues such as gender, pastoralism, ethnicity, constitutionalism, local governance, the economy and the African Union. Reviews six country case studies on progress so far: Botswana, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Zambia and Ethiopia.
Author : Hussein Solomon,Ian Liebenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351751285
This title was first published in 2000: The continent of Africa is undergoing great change. While on the one hand there is talk of a re-awakening of Africa or Renaissance various countries in Africa are still plagued by poverty, intra- and interstate violence. In some countries the legacy of neo-colonialism and under development contributed to social strife and the potential criminalization of the State. This book addresses the topic of democratization and sustainable democracy in Africa against this background.
Author : Nelson Kasfir
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : 9783905758894
Civil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled successfully to Africa. Revived in response to the search for democracy in Eastern Europe during the late Soviet era, Western donors promoted and funded new civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa, regarding them as an essential grounding for African democratization. Most of these new civil society organizations had little in common with African associational activity. Focusing on the characteristics and behavior of longstand-ing African organizations would appear a better starting point for developing a useful concept of an African civil society. One candidate worth serious investigation is the Buganda Kingdom Government. This organization violates most distinctions central to Western notions of civil society. Yet it continues to behave like a civil society organization. Its political and conceptual collisions offer guidance toward a useful notion of African civil society and understanding Ugandan politics.
Author : Roger Southall
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0796920176
The two papers included in this analysis examine the political and socioeconomic factors that contribute to and constrain upon democratization throughout southern Africa and the African continent. With an emphasis on the policies of government, business, and civil society geared toward reducing inequality and poverty, these studies promote community empowerment as a way to promote local, regional, and national sustainable development on the African continent.
Author : Michael Leslie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351506373
Recent discussion of democratization in Africa has focused primarily on the reform of formal state institutions: the public service, the judiciary, and the legislature. Similarly, both scholars and activists have shown interest in how associational life-and with it a civil society-might be enhanced in the countries of the African continent. Much less concern, however, has been directed to the communications media, although they form a vital part of this process. Media and Democracy in Africa provides the first comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the role of the media in political change in sub-Saharan Africa. The central argument of the volume is that while the media may still be relatively weak compared to their positions in liberal democracies, they have come to play a much more important role than ever before since independence. Although they have not yet demonstrated sufficient effectiveness as public watchdogs and agenda setters, they have succeeded in creating new communicative spaces for people who have previously been intimidated or silent. Building on this the contributors argue that a different conceptualization of democratization than the mainstream currently uses may be necessary to capture the process in Africa where it is characterized by contestation rather than consolidation. This volume shows that the media scene in Africa is diverse. It stretches from the well-developed and technologically advanced situation in South Africa to the still fledgling media operations that are typical in sub-Saharan Africa. In these countries, print media as well as television and radio are just beginning to take their place in society and do so using simple and often outdated technology. The volume also examines how these growing outlets are supplemented by informal media, the so-called radio trottoir, or rumor mill whereby the autocratic and bureaucratic direction of public affairs are subject to private speculation and analysis. Media and Democracy in Africa is organized to provide a historical perspective on the evolution of the African media, placing the present in the context of the past, including both colonial and post-colonial experiences. It will be of interest to Africa area specialists, students of media and communications, political scientists and sociologists.
Author : Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa,Ossrea
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9789994455324
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Author : Clive Gabay,Carl Death
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317686132
Strong states and strong civil societies are now increasingly hailed as the twin drivers of a ‘rising Africa’. Current attempts to support growth and democracy are part of a longer history of promoting projects of disciplinary, regulatory and liberal rule and values beyond ‘the West’. Yet this is not simply Western domination of a passive continent. Such an interpretation misses out on the complexities and nuances of the politics of state-building and civil society promotion, and the central role of African agency. Drawing upon critical theory, including postcolonial and governmentality approaches, this book interrogates international practices of state-building and civil society support in Africa. It seeks to develop a theoretically informed critical approach to discourses and interventions such as those associated with broadly ‘Western’ initiatives in Africa. In doing so, the book highlights the power relations, inequalities, coercion and violence that are deeply implicated within contemporary international interventions on the African continent. Providing a range of empirical cases and theoretical approaches, the chapters are united by their critical treatment of political dynamics in Africa. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African politics, development studies, postcolonial theory, International Relations, international political economy and peacekeeping/making.
Author : Julius Edo Nyang'oro
Publisher : Mwengo
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015054412799
Author : Célestin Monga
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1555876447
Many scholars argue that ongoing democratisation in Africa is doomed to fail because political reforms have been imposed by external donors; others challenge the roots of the current changes. This work believes that both views are wrong, as Africa has a long tradition of indigenous activism.
Author : Stephen N. Ndegwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Africa
ISBN : UOM:49015002301159
Includes bibliographical references and index.