Political Reform In Francophone Africa

Author : John F Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429977817

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Most African states experienced only a few fleeting years of democratic rule after independence before succumbing to authoritarianism. During the 1970s and 1980s, Africans and Westerners alike came to view dictatorship to be as much a part of the region’s social landscape as its grinding poverty. Yet the end of the Cold War and the sharpening of the economic crisis at the end of the 1980s have breathed new life into campaigns for democracy in Africa, shaking the foundations of many long-standing autocracies. In some cases, dramatic transitions took place, though the fate of the new democracies is far from certain. This volume explores the origins and evolution of political reform movements in several states of francophone Africa. The authors first make the case for the distinctiveness of francophone Africa, based on the influences of colonial history, language, and France’s contemporary role in Africa, then survey the challenges of reform, including the problems of transition from authoritarianism and consolidation of democratic regimes. Case studies of thirteen former French and Belgian colonies follow, organized by level of reform achieved: peaceful regime change, incremental reforms, repressed reform efforts, and reform in the midst of war.

Author : John F Clark
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0813327865

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Political Reform In Francophone Africa by John F Clark Pdf

Most African states experienced only a few fleeting years of democratic rule after independence before succumbing to authoritarianism. During the 1970s and 1980s, Africans and Westerners alike came to view dictatorship to be as much a part of the region's social landscape as its grinding poverty. Yet the end of the Cold War and the sharpening of the economic crisis at the end of the 1980s have breathed new life into campaigns for democracy in Africa, shaking the foundations of many long-standing autocracies. In some cases, dramatic transitions took place, though the fate of the new democracies is far from certain.This volume explores the origins and evolution of political reform movements in several states of Francophone Africa. The authors first make the case for the distinctiveness of Francophone Africa, based on the influences of colonial history, language, and France's contemporary role in Africa, then survey the challenges of reform, including the problems of transition from authoritarianism and consolidation of democratic regimes. Case studies of thirteen former French and Belgium colonies follow, organized by level of reform achieved: peaceful regime change, incremental reforms, repressed reform efforts, and reform in the mist of war.

Author : Victor T. Le Vine
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1588262499

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Politics in Francophone Africa by Victor T. Le Vine Pdf

Explores the elements that have shaped the particular political dynamics of the 14 former French colonies in west and equatorial Africa while allowing them to remain part of a unique francophone sociopolitical community.

Author : John Mukum Mbaku,Julius O. Ihonvbere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429835759

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Multiparty Democracy and Political Change by John Mukum Mbaku,Julius O. Ihonvbere Pdf

First published in 1998, This book is written by seasoned scholars of African Studies and it intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on democracy and democratization in the continent. It contains a rich mixture of analytical ideas and views on the transition to accountable, participatory, and democratic governance structures in Africa. It provides both students of African political economy and policymakers in the continent and in-depth analysis of the post-independence experience of African countries with institutional reforms. Specifically, it looks at the struggles of Africans, since independence, to provide themselves with more appropriate and viable governance structures and economic systems that enhance the ability to entrepreneurs to create wealth. The Book breaks new ground in that it places significant emphasis on the reconstruction of the neo-colonial state as an important first step to a successful transition to democratic and more accountable governance structures.

Author : 'Ladipo Adamolekun,Guy de Lusignan,Armand Atomate
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821339109

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Civil Service Reform in Francophone Africa by 'Ladipo Adamolekun,Guy de Lusignan,Armand Atomate Pdf

The world's financial markets are rapidly integrating into a single global marketplace, and developing countries are being drawn into this process starting from different points and moving at various speeds. Those with adequate institutions and sound policies in place may proceed smoothly along the road toward financial integration and gain the many benefits that integration can bring. Most of the developing economies lack many of the necesssary prerequisites for such a move; a few are so unprepared that integration may do them more harm than good. Developing countries may have little choice about whether to follow this path'advances in communications and new developments in finance have made the course inevitable'but they may still choose the ways in which they proceed, choosing the policies that benefit the economy and averting potential shocks. This World Bank report looks at the important challenges both sets of countries face in a new age of global capital. The book presents new and compelling evidence that, while low interest rates in industrial countries provided an initial impetus to the surge in private capital flows during 1989-93, these flows have entered a new phase, driven by increased financial integration . The report analyzes the causes and effects of integration, with a particular emphasis on how developing countries in the nascent stages of integration can learn from the experiences of the more rapidly integrating developing countries.

Author : Piet Konings
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956717101

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The Politics of Neoliberal Reforms in Africa by Piet Konings Pdf

Neoliberalism has become the dominant development agenda in Africa. Faced with a deep economic and political crisis, African governments have been compelled by powerful external agencies, in particular the Bretton Woods institutions and western states, to pursue this agenda as a necessary precondition for the receipt of development aid. What is particularly striking in Africa, however, is that neoliberal experiments there have displayed such remarkable diversity. This may be due not only to substantial differences in historical, economic and political trajectories on the African continent but also, and maybe more importantly, in the degree of resistance internal actors have demonstrated to the neoliberal reforms imposed on them. This book focuses on Cameroon which has had a complex economic and political history and is currently witnessing resistance to the neoliberal experiment by the authoritarian and neopatrimonial state elite and various civil-society groups. It is the culmination of over twenty years of fine and refined research by one of the leading scholars of Cameroon today.

Author : Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1588262464

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Democratic Reform in Africa by Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi Pdf

After more than a decade of reform efforts in Africa, much of the optimism over the continent's prospects has been replaced by widespread Afropessimism. But to what extent is either view well founded? Democratic Reform in Africa plumbs the key issues in the contemporary African experience - including intrastate conflict, corruption, and the development of civil society - highlighting the challenges and evaluating the progress of political and economic change. Case studies of Botswana, Mozambique, Nigeria, and South Africa complement the thematic chapters, exploring the interactions between democracy and development.

Author : Daniel Bach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349238262

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State and Society in Francophone Africa since Independence by Daniel Bach Pdf

This book presents a series of essays by leading English and French scholas examining the politics, economics, international relations and defects of the literary scene of France and the former territories of francophone West Africa since 1965. The approach is emphatically a thematic one rather than a country-by-country analysis.

Author : Nic Cheeseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521191128

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Democracy in Africa by Nic Cheeseman Pdf

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of Africa's history of democracy, grappling with important questions facing Africa today.

Author : Bruno Charbonneau,Tony Chafer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317750123

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Peace Operations in the Francophone World by Bruno Charbonneau,Tony Chafer Pdf

This book critically examines peacebuilding, humanitarian intervention and peace operation practices and experiences in francophone spaces. Francophone Africa as a specific space is relatively little studied in the peace and security literature, despite the fact that almost half of all peacekeepers are deployed or were deployed in this part of Africa during the last decade. It is an arena for intervention that deserves more serious attention, if only because it provides fertile ground for exploring the key questions raised in the peacekeeping and peacebuilding literature. For instance, in 2002 a French operation (Licorne) was launched and in 2003 a UN force was deployed in Côte d’Ivoire alongside the French force there. Filling a gap in the current literature, Peace Operations in the Francophone World critically examines peacekeeping and peacebuilding practices in the francophone world, including but not limited to conflict prevention and resolution, security sector reform (SSR), francophone politics, and North–South relations. The book explores whether peace and security operations in francophone spaces have exceptional characteristics when compared with those carried out in other parts of the world and assesses whether an analysis of these operations in the francophone world can make a specific and original contribution to wider international debates about peacekeeping and peacebuilding. This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, African politics, security studies, and IR in general.

Author : Alan Bryden,Boubacar N'Diaye
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643801098

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Security Sector Governance in Francophone West Africa by Alan Bryden,Boubacar N'Diaye Pdf

Experience shows that successful democratic transitions need to be underpinned by a security sector that is effective, well managed, and accountable to the state and its citizens. This is why it is so important to carefully examine security sector governance dynamics in contexts where security has often remained a 'reserved domain.' Understanding the issues and perspectives that divide political elites, the security sector, and citizens is the only way to develop security sector reform programs that are legitimate and sustainable at the national level. Through drawing on the close contextual knowledge of practitioners, researchers, and diverse local actors, this book supports this goal by analyzing security sector governance dynamics in each of the nine Francophone countries within West Africa. From this basis, strengths and weaknesses are analyzed, local capacities evaluated, and entry points identified to promote democratic security sector governance in the West African region. (Series: Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces [DCAF])

Author : William Tordoff
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022399278

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Government and Politics in Africa by William Tordoff Pdf

"This new and expanded edition of the definitive textbook on African government and politics has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of the major developments of the 1990s." "Adopting a thematic approach and using examples from a very wide range of countries, the book provides detailed coverage of such key issues as the colonial legacy, nationalism and the transfer of power, state and society, political parties and interest groups, administration and the military, revolutionary movements and regimes, regional politics and the Organisation of African Unity, and ideology and development."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Jennifer A. Widner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032476957

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Economic Change and Political Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa by Jennifer A. Widner Pdf

Aims to establish the nature of the relationship between the economic challenges of the 1980s and the steps toward greater political openness taken by governments at the end of that decade.

Author : 'Ladipo Adamolekun,Banco Mundial
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:777862216

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Civil Service Reform in Francophone Africa by 'Ladipo Adamolekun,Banco Mundial Pdf

Author : Tony Chafer,Alexander Keese
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1526122855

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Francophone Africa at Fifty by Tony Chafer,Alexander Keese Pdf

France's presence on the African continent has often been presented as 'cooperation' and part of French cultural policy by policy-makers in Paris and quite as often been denounced as 'the longest scandal of the republic' by French academics and African intellectuals. Between the last years of French colonialism and France's sustained interventions in former African colonies such as Chad or Côte d'Ivoire during the 2000s, the legacy of French colonialism has shaped the historical trajectory of more than a dozen countries and societies in Africa. The complexities of this story are now, for the first time, addressed in a comprehensive series of essays, based on new research by a group of specialists in French colonial history. The book addresses the needs of both academic specialists and those of students of history and neighbouring disciplines looking for structural analysis of key themes in France's and Africa's shared history.