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Author : Shantayanan Devarajan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Can Civil Society Overcome Government Failure in Africa? written by Shantayanan Devarajan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raj Bardouille
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443818844
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Failed and Failing States written by Raj Bardouille and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State collapse is one of the major threats to peace, stability, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa today. In a collapsed state the regime finally wears out its ability to satisfy the demands of the various groups in society; it fails to govern or to keep the state together. The collapse is marked by the loss of control over political and economic space. A collapsed state can no longer perform its basic security and development functions and has no effective control over its territory and borders. Efforts to avoid drawing other nations into a wider conflict created by the collapse of a state—and creating favorable conditions for reconciliation and reconstruction of a failed state after it has collapsed—present major challenges. In April, 2008 the Cornell Institute for African Development called a symposium on ‘Failed and Failing States in Africa: Lessons from Darfur and Beyond’ to address these critical issues. Key contributions to the symposium are brought together in this volume. Taken together these essays represent a significant discussion on the challenges presented by the presence of failing states within Africa.
Author : Abadir M. Ibrahim
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319183834
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book The Role of Civil Society in Africa’s Quest for Democratization written by Abadir M. Ibrahim and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555876418
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (764 download)
Download or read book Civil Society and the State in Africa written by John Willis Harbeson and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Nelson Kasfir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136323112
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Civil Society and Democracy in Africa written by Nelson Kasfir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Abdalla Bujra
Publisher : OSSREA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Breaking Barriers, Creating New Hopes written by Abdalla Bujra and published by OSSREA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Clive Gabay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317686136
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on African Politics written by Clive Gabay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John L. Comaroff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226114149
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (141 download)
Download or read book Civil Society and the Political Imagination in Africa written by John L. Comaroff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this important new collection explore the diverse, unexpected, and controversial ways in which the idea of civil society has recently entered into populist politics and public debate throughout Africa. In a substantial introduction, anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff offer a critical theoretical analysis of the nature and deployment of the concept—and the current debates surrounding it. Building on this framework, the contributors investigate the "problem" of civil society across their regions of expertise, which cover the continent. Drawing creatively on one another's work, they examine the impact of colonial ideology, postcoloniality, and development practice on discourses of civility, the workings of everyday politics, the construction of new modes of selfhood, and the pursuit of moral community. Incisive and original, the book shows how struggles over civil society in Africa reveal much about larger historical forces in the post-Cold War era. It also makes a strong case for the contribution of historical anthropology to contemporary discourses on the rise of a "new world order."
Author : Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 999445532X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Good Governance and Civil Society Participation in Africa written by Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: governments and the public at large. --Book Jacket.
Author : Eghosa E. Osaghae
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Between State and Civil Society in Africa written by Eghosa E. Osaghae and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lennart Wohlgemuth
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064509
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (645 download)
Download or read book Common Security and Civil Society in Africa written by Lennart Wohlgemuth and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the outcome of a conference on common security and civil society in Africa. The contributions seek to go beyond the "war of images" to imagine a different and more secure future. They are concerned with five different themes: economic and social change; prevention of violent conflicts; the causes of conflict; political security, and the international politics of development partnership.
Author : Stephen N. Ndegwa
Publisher : UADY
ISBN 13 : 9781565490567
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Two Faces of Civil Society written by Stephen N. Ndegwa and published by UADY. This book was released on 1996 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : Kingsley Y. Amoako
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Future of Civil Society in Democratic Governance and Development in Africa written by Kingsley Y. Amoako and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. A. Akindele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Civil Society, Good Governance, and the Challenge of Regional Security in West Africa written by R. A. Akindele and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abadir M. Ibrahim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783319183848
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (838 download)
Download or read book The Role of Civil Society in Africa's Quest for Democratization written by Abadir M. Ibrahim and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 African civil society and 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 : Zzzz
Publisher : Conseil Pour Le Developement De LA
ISBN 13 : 9782869780286
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Between State and Civil Society in Africa written by Zzzz and published by Conseil Pour Le Developement De LA. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Célestin Monga
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781555878412
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (784 download)
Download or read book The Anthropology of Anger written by Célestin Monga and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 1998 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars have argued that the ongoing democratization process in Africa is doomed to fail because the political reforms have been essentially imposed by external donors. Others have challenged the very roots of the current changes, alleging that Africa needs cultural and economic adjustments before being ready for sustainable democracy.
