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Author : Stephen N. Ndegwa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Decade of Democracy in Africa written by Stephen N. Ndegwa and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen N. Ndegwa
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004122444
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (224 download)
Download or read book A Decade of Democracy in Africa written by Stephen N. Ndegwa and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The democratic experiment in Africa has had a checkered history over the past ten years. Analysts of this proces tend to focus on the political and legal space instead of including broader issues such as norms, generational change and class. Past experience from Botswana, South-Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Madagascar will give the readers an understanding of democracy in Africa.
Author : Larry Jay Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801862731
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Democratization in Africa written by Larry Jay Diamond and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The country-specific chapters serve to underline the differences between African democracy and liberal democracy, yet some authors are at pains to emphasize that whatever their limitations, African democracies are an advance over what had gone before." -- African Studies Review
Author : ALan Jeeves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (664 download)
Download or read book A Decade of Democracy in Southern Africa written by ALan Jeeves and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588262462
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Democratic Reform in Africa written by Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Lessons from the field written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956763004
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Democracy, Good Governance and Development in Africa written by Mawere, Munyaradzi and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2015-10-24 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309047978
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Democratization in Africa written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global movement toward democracy, spurred in part by the ending of the cold war, has created opportunities for democratization not only in Europe and the former Soviet Union, but also in Africa. This book is based on workshops held in Benin, Ethiopia, and Namibia to better understand the dynamics of contemporary democratic movements in Africa. Key issues in the democratization process range from its institutional and political requirements to specific problems such as ethnic conflict, corruption, and role of donors in promoting democracy. By focusing on the opinion and views of African intellectuals, academics, writers, and political activists and observers, the book provides a unique perspective regarding the dynamics and problems of democratization in Africa.
Author : J. Piombo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403978867
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Electoral Politics in South Africa written by J. Piombo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years into the 'new' South Africa, how does democracy function? This volume provides a retrospective on a decade of elections and democracy in South Africa. The book analyzes the evolution of the party system and electoral campaigns; tracks changes in public opinion and voter motivations; assesses the political implications of socioeconomic change; depicts the evolution of parliament and the electoral system; probes the often-tense relationship between media and government; analyzes the institutionalization the Independent Electoral Commission; and, finally, argues that South Africa is witnessing a 'normalization' of politics. The book speaks to a broad range of topics, all linked through the electoral theme, which get to the heart of many issues in contemporary South African politics.
Author : Boubacar N'Diaye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Not Yet Democracy written by Boubacar N'Diaye and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a way, this book is historically a sequence to Kenyan statesman Ojinga Odinga's Not Yet Uhuru. It echoes his admonition, a generation ago, that ominous indications in the policies, behavior, and attitudes suggested that freedom was not, as yet, achieved even as colonialism came to an end. More than a decade into the democratization era, Not Yet Democracy's scrutiny of one third of West African states similarly suggests that, generally, the sub-region most affected by militarism and autocratic rule is emerging from the gripping embrace of authoritarianism extremely slowly indeed. Through a close analysis of an edifying sample of states, this book documents and illustrates how the experiment of abandoning authoritarianism has typically unfolded in West Africa. It singularly contributes theoretically and empirically to the ongoing debate both in academia and in popular circles on the pace, prospects, and dynamics of democratization and de-militarization of political life in the sub-region. The authors highlight the historical continuity both of military interference and elite rivalries over state control discernable in the agonizingly slow and unsettled transformation of West Africa's political landscape. The study is also a critical exposé of how the post-1990s crop of political leaders have (mis)handled the second chance afforded them to grant Africans long-denied basic human, political, and civic rights, which were, after all, the main promise of political independence a generation ago. The book proceeds on the analytical proposition that, against the background of shared praetorianism and military politicization, there is a discernable connection between the singular itineraries West African regimes have followed in their unsteady efforts to overcome a damning history of authoritarianism. The five chapters richly illustrate these intricate connections and their implications for the fortunes of the democratization movement in the sub-region as a whole. A sobering conclusion is that it will take time and much disillusionment for entrenched militarism and anti-democratic practices to disappear from West Africa. "This is a thorough study of democratization and authoritarianism in West Africa. Summing Up: Recommended." -- CHOICE Magazine, 2005
Author : Nic Cheeseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316239489
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book Democracy in Africa written by Nic Cheeseman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jeffrey W. Paller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316513300
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Democracy in Ghana written by Jeffrey W. Paller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of politics in Ghana's urban neighborhoods, providing a new way to understand African democracy and development.
Author : Frank-Collins N. Okafor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Neo-democracy and Poverty Management in Africa written by Frank-Collins N. Okafor and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elke Zuern
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029925013X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Necessity written by Elke Zuern and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2011-02-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of apartheid in South Africa broke down political barriers, extending to all races the formal rights of citizenship, including the right to participate in free elections and parliamentary democracy. But South Africa remains one of the most economically polarized nations in the world. In The Politics of Necessity Elke Zuern forcefully argues that working toward greater socio-economic equality—access to food, housing, land, jobs—is crucial to achieving a successful and sustainable democracy. Drawing on interviews with local residents and activists in South Africa’s impoverished townships during more than a decade of dramatic political change, Zuern tracks the development of community organizing and reveals the shifting challenges faced by poor citizens. Under apartheid, township residents began organizing to press the government to address the basic material necessities of the poor and expanded their demands to include full civil and political rights. While the movement succeeded in gaining formal political rights, democratization led to a new government that instituted neo-liberal economic reforms and sought to minimize protest. In discouraging dissent and failing to reduce economic inequality, South Africa’s new democracy has continued to disempower the poor. By comparing movements in South Africa to those in other African and Latin American states, this book identifies profound challenges to democratization. Zuern asserts the fundamental indivisibility of all human rights, showing how protest movements that call attention to socio-economic demands, though often labeled a threat to democracy, offer significant opportunities for modern democracies to evolve into systems of rule that empower all citizens.
Author : Jeffrey Haynes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745666981
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Democracy in the Developing World written by Jeffrey Haynes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the late 1980s, there were very few democratically elected governments in the developing world. These areas were characterized by a range of authoritarian regimes from military administrations to one-party dictatorships. Over the past decade, however, the situation has altered significantly and an increasing number of developing countries have made the transition to democracy. For some, this process of building and consolidating democracy has been relatively easy, while for others, it has proved more complex and harder to sustain. In this important new textbook, Jeff Haynes seeks to explain why these differences occur. Adopting a broadly comparative approach, he begins by examining the theories and practice of democratic transition and consolidation in the new democracies of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Haynes argues persuasively that a country's ability to consolidate democracy depends not only on the interaction of structural and agency factors, but also on a variety of specific domestic and international concerns which may help or hinder democratic progress. Using a wide range of case studies to illustrate his argument, Haynes provides an accessible and comprehensive analysis of the processes and problems of democratic consolidation in developing nations. This is an important textbook that will be invaluable to students in a variety of areas from politics and comparative politics to development studies and history.
Author : Lucy Jane Corkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (712 download)
Download or read book A Decade of Democracy written by Lucy Jane Corkin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : MISTRA MISTRA
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1928509096
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (285 download)
Download or read book 20 Years of South African Democracy: So Where to now? written by MISTRA MISTRA and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the outcome of a conference marking the beginning of South Africas third decade of democracy hosted in November 2014 by the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and the Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute (TMALI) at the University of South Africa (Unisa). The conference was entitled 20 Years of South African Democracy: So Where to Now? The main focus of the conference was projective reflections into the next two decades of democracy. It aimed to deal with the theoretical perspectives underpinning the state of South Africa in two decades of democracy and, most importantly, prospects for the future.
