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Author : Wale Adebanwi,Rogers Orock
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780472054817
Studying elites through the framework of accountability
Author : Omololu Fagbadebo,Fayth Ruffin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319935096
This book examines the problem of accountability in two African political systems, South Africa and Nigeria. Despite the principle of separation of powers and the doctrine of checks and balances among the institutions of governance, a burgeoning governance crisis stifles the potential of accountability and good governance. Legislative oversight in the two countries remains largely ineffective while citizens are left to face the consequences of the mismanagement of public resources by political elites. This book critically assesses how the legislative institutions in South Africa and Nigeria have been unable to harness the requisite constitutional powers to ensure accountability in government and explores the feasibility of their effectiveness. The book begins with a comparative analysis of the principles, tradition, and powers associated with legislative capability in South Africa and Nigeria. The chapters explore constitutional provisions and analyze the capacity of each legislature to function within its respective political environment. The book also examines the process and challenges associated with the various measures and mechanisms available for legislatures to ensure accountability in the two countries. Researchers, scholars and students of African politics will find this book useful in their understanding of the problems associated with the simmering governance crisis in South Africa and Nigeria.
Author : Carl Dahlström,Lena Wängnerud
Publisher : Springer
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137556288
To a large extent, elite politicians, bureaucrats, and businessmen hold the fortunes of their societies in their hands. This edited volume describes how formal and informal institutions affect elite behaviour, which in turn affects corruption and the quality of government.
Author : Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa,Lia Nijzink
Publisher : United Nations Univ
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 928081205X
This book brings together a number of leading experts in the fields of public law, political science and democratization studies to identify ways of making African governments accountable and describe the extent to which these mechanisms work in practice. It presents new knowledge about legal and political developments in a number of African countries, relevant to the policy goal of developing and deepening democratic governance and accountable government on the continent. This book will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners in the fields of public law, public administration, political studies and African studies.
Author : Ulf Engel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351147903
Governance has become an important concept in the politics of African development. It is therefore a crucial concept for social science analyses focusing on Africa. In public discourse Africa's future is being shaped by a combination of external interventions backed by African elites who cooperate with the donors, whose understanding of the importance of 'good governance' they share. This groundbreaking book disentangles the analytical aspects of governance from its political and normative connotations. The 'African exception' - the difference in 'development' between Africa and other regions of the South - can be understood by analysis focusing upon the specific forms of governance played out in politics and economics. The perspective of neo-patrimonialism is crucial but not sufficient here. The first section of the book explores African governance in two functional spheres: the political realm and the economic. Section two looks at new areas of governance in Africa: violent social spaces, HIV/AIDS and entrepreneurial urban governance.
Author : Muna Ndulo,Mamoudou Gazibo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Africa south of Sahara
ISBN : 1443885479
Revisiting the Study of Governance / Göran Hyden -- Democratisation in Africa : Achievements and Agenda / Mamoudou Gazibo -- The Expansion of Judicial Power in Africa and Democratic Consolidation : Opportunities, Challenges and Future Prospects / Charles M. Fombad -- Constitution-Making in Anglophone Africa : We the People? / Coel Kirkby and Christina Murray -- Measuring the Persuasive Effects of Electoral Campaigns in Africa / Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz -- Subnational Elections and Accountability : A Study of Political Decentralization and Democratic Governance / Rachel Beatty Riedl and J. Tyler Dickovick -- Slippery Citizenship : Nationalism, Democracy and the State in Africa / Jennifer Riggan -- Federal Developments and Accountable Government Structures in East Africa / Jan Amilcar Schmidt -- Hereditary Rule in Democratic Africa : Reconciling Citizens and Chiefs / Kate Baldwin -- Critical Reflections on Social Accountability and Local Government in Ghana / Cyril K. Daddieh -- "Emerging" Africa : Long-term Perspectives on Growth and Democracy / Antoinette Handley -- A Legal Framework for Combating Corruption : Case Study from Zambia / Muna Ndulo -- Two-and-a-Half Cheers for Democracy in Africa / Nicolas van de Walle.
Author : F. O. C. Nwonwu,Dirk Kotze
Publisher : Africa Inst of South Africa
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0798301848
African Political Elites looks at the five African countries that acted as the vanguards in creating the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) initiative: Nigeria, South Africa, Senegal, Egypt and Algeria. The leadership structures, trends in political democratisation, and prospects of continued democratic stability are examined from the perspectives of the five countries. The implications of the new political dispensation for Africa in the context of the African Union (AU), and African development through NEPAD, make up the central theme of the book. The fact that the selected countries have emerged from diverse eras of political misrule including long periods of military dictatorship, apartheid hegemony, and civilian autocracy is of significance in the new political order. The book documents the views of a wide range of stakeholders including politicians, academics, business leaders and the media on the ethos of African political elites and the future of NEPAD as Africa's flagship in development. The authors have divergent opinions about Africa's political achievements; but the optimists submit that the breaking away from the undemocratic and dictatorial past must be seen as denoting some measure of success. Others consider African political elites and NEPAD as too reticent and lacking the political will and drive to liberate Africa from the current political quagmire. Serving and aspiring political elites in Africa should see themselves through the mirror of this book and apply their minds to the constructive views expressed herein. This book is recommended as essential reading for students and academics interested in African democratic evolution and the role of elites as architects of Africa's political and democratic trajectory.
Author : F. (Francis); Kotze Nwonwu (D. (Dirk))
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1037129519
Author : Danwood M. Chirwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9210552857
A number of leading experts in the fields of public law, political science and democratization studies contributed to this book to identify ways of making African governments accountable and describe the extent to which these mechanisms work in practice. It presents new knowledge about legal and political developments in a number of African countries that are relevant to the policy goal of developing and deepening democratic governance and accountable government on the continent. This book is of interest to academics, students and practitioners in the fields of public law, public administration, political studies and African studies.
Author : Ken Ochieng' Opalo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108492102
Examined the development of legislatures under colonial rule, post-colonial autocratic single party rule, and multi-party politics in Africa.
Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mwanaka, Tendai R.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Nic Cheeseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107148246
Offers new research on the vital importance of institutions, such as presidential term-limits in the African democratisation processes.
Author : Nic Cheeseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521191128
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of Africa's history of democracy, grappling with important questions facing Africa today.
Author : Deborah Brautigam
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Decision-making
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
An exploration of the links between development and governance- that is, between development and accountability (including institutional pluralism and participation) ; openness (including problems such as corruption that result at least partly from lack of openness) ; and predictability, or the rule of law.
Author : Louisa Lombard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108478779
The first ethnographic and historical study of raiding in the Central African Republic. By treating raiding as a political mode, this fascinating study investigates forceful acquisition, revealing the evolution of raiding skills, examples of encounters and its consequences over the last 150 years.