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Author : A. Carl LeVan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107081147
This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.
Author : Gabriel Oyaletor Ijewere
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000078542234
Author : George B.N. Ayittey
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230341098
Despite billions of dollars of aid and the best efforts of the international community to improve economies and bolster democracy across Africa, violent dictatorships persist. As a result, millions have died, economies are in shambles, and whole states are on the brink of collapse. Political observers and policymakers are starting to believe that economic aid is not the key to saving Africa. So what does the continent need to do to throw off the shackles of militant rule? African policy expert George Ayittey argues that before Africa can prosper, she must be free. Taking a hard look at the fight against dictatorships around the world, from Ukraine's orange revolution in 2004 to Iran's Green Revolution last year, he examines what strategies worked in the struggle to establish democracy through revolution. Ayittey also offers strategies for the West to help Africa in her quest for freedom, including smarter sanctions and establishing fellowships for African students.
Author : Lyn S. Graybill,Kenneth W. Thompson
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761810714
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Author : Alfio Cerami
Publisher : Springer
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137318213
This book examines the relationship between development economics, social protection and democratization in the specific context of Sub-Saharan Africa. Moving existing theories of transformation into a new terrain, it sheds light on the exclusive origins of dictatorship and democracy.
Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mwanaka, Tendai R.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956763009
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 : Darin Christensen,David D. Laitin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780300226614
Authors Christensen and Laitin argue that an interplay of geographic, historical, and demographic factors undergird sub-Saharan states' post-independence struggles to eradicate poverty, establish democratic accountability, and quell civil unrest. They set out the founding fathers' challenges in transforming their postcolonial states, many of which are ethnically diverse, geographically diffuse, sparsely populated, and lacking in administrative capacity. With the legacies of the slave trade, partition, Christian missionaries, and extractive colonial institutions complicating their efforts, many African states faced stagnation, authoritarianism, and civil strife. Recent years have seen promising attempts to restore democracy to states under authoritarian rule and to liberalize their economies, suggesting that the region is moving toward a new era. Relying on the best statistical data and richly illustrated with case material, this book is an indispensable source for scholars and policy analysts seeking to understand Africa's post-independence political trajectories.
Author : R. Pinkney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230379589
An examination of the evolution of democracy in Ghana and Tanzania, following long periods of single-party and military rule, and looks at the current and potential obstacles to democratic development. After discussing the nature of democracy, the author goes on to consider the conditions which have made the emergence of multi-party politics possible in Ghana and Tanzania. The book looks at the balance of forces between governments and campaigners for pluralist democracy, and at the outcomes that emerged.
Author : Kasahun Woldemariam
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1592216692
In the early 1990s, the African political landscape was liberalised and multiparty elections were held in various regions of the continent. However, from the mid-1990s onwards, power began to become concentrated in the hands of a few ruling elites. Elections became mere theatrical displays and were held neither regularly, fairly or freely. Using exploratory research methods and system theory, Kasahun Woldemariam examines how and why this was able to happen.
Author : John R. Heilbrunn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107049819
This book focuses on the history, key industry and policy actors, and political economic outcomes in oil-producing African states, filling a gap in the literature on resource-abundant countries by providing an optimistic assessment of circumstances in contemporary Africa.
Author : Kenneth Kalu,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso,Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351363716
This book spotlights, analyzes and explains varying forms and patterns of state-society relations on the African continent, taking as point of departure the complexities created by the emergence, proliferation and complicated interactions of so-called ‘big men’ across Africa's fifty-four states. The contributors interrogate the evolution of Africa’s big men; the role of the big men in Africa’s political and economic development; and the relationship between the state, the big men and the citizens. Throughout the chapters the contributors engage with a number of questions from different disciplinary and methodological orientations. How did these states evolve to exhibit various deformities in their composition, functioning and in their relations with the societies that they govern? What roles did Atlantic and other slavery and European colonialism play in creating states that are unable to display the right and good relationships with citizens in civil society? Why did these forms of predatory state-society relations continue to thrive in Africa after the end of Atlantic slave trade and subsequent colonialism? Why did the emerging African leaders at independence fail to effectively dismantle the structures of exploitation and expropriation that were the defining features of slavery and colonialism? Who are Africa’s ‘big men’, and what are their trajectories? This book is essential reading for all students and scholars of African politics, public policy and administration, political economy, and democratisation.
Author : Wale Adeniran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114983328
Author : Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521855268
This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Dictatorship nevertheless is not stable when citizens can threaten social disorder and revolution. In response, when the costs of repression are sufficiently high and promises of concessions are not credible, elites may be forced to create democracy. By democratizing, elites credibly transfer political power to the citizens, ensuring social stability. Democracy consolidates when elites do not have strong incentive to overthrow it. These processes depend on (1) the strength of civil society, (2) the structure of political institutions, (3) the nature of political and economic crises, (4) the level of economic inequality, (5) the structure of the economy, and (6) the form and extent of globalization.
Author : Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105082116257
Author : Hannah Muzee,Tata Emmanuel Sunjo,Andrew Osehi Enaifoghe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031112485
This book examines the governance and democratization process in Africa, its history, trends, and prospects. Written by a diverse panel of experts, the book provides an intersectional and interdisciplinary analysis of Africa’s democratic environment. Chapters cover topics such as the evolution of democracy in Africa, electoral politics, gender, activism, human rights, and cultural diversity. Critically assessing the fit of democracy for African countries and offering strategies for the Africanization of democracy, this volume will be important for researchers and students interested in African politics, postcolonial theory, democracy, and governance.