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Download or read book Afrobarometer written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Bratton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521602914
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa written by Michael Bratton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a groundbreaking exploration of public opinion in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on the Afrobarometer, a survey research project, it reveals what ordinary Africans think about democracy and market reforms, subjects on which almost nothing is otherwise known. The authors find that support for democracy in Africa is wide but shallow and that Afrcns feel trapped between state and market. While Africans are learning about reform on the basis of knowledge, reasoning, and experience, few countries are likely to attain full-fledged democracies and markets anytime soonn.
Author : Carolyn Logan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Afrobarometer Round I written by Carolyn Logan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elliott Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134933053
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Political Opposition and Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Elliott Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a closer look at the role and meaning of political opposition for the development of democracy across sub-Saharan Africa. Why is room for political opposition in most cases so severely limited? Under what circumstances has the political opposition been able to establish itself in a legitimate role in African politics? To answer these questions this edited volume focuses on the institutional settings, the nature and dynamics within and between political parties, and the relationship between the citizens and political parties. It is found that regional devolution and federalist structures enable political opposition to organize and gain local power, as a supplement to influence at the central level. Generally, however, opposition parties are lacking in organization and institutionalization, as well as in their ability to find support in civil society and promote the issues that voters find most important. Overall, strong executive powers, unchecked by democratic institutions, in combination with deferential values and fear of conflict, undermine legitimate opposition activity. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.
Download or read book Afrobarometer Round 2 written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Bratton
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781588268945
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Voting and Democratic Citizenship in Africa written by Michael Bratton and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 2013 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new forms of popular participation for citizenship and democracy? Drawing on a decade of research from the cross-national Afrobarometer project, the authors of this seminal collection explore the emerging role of mass politics in Africa¿s fledgling democracies.
Author : M. Anne Pitcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107376009
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies written by M. Anne Pitcher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies, M. Anne Pitcher offers an engaging new theory to explain the different trajectories of private sector development across contemporary Africa. Pitcher argues that the outcomes of economic reforms depend not only on the kinds of institutional arrangements adopted by states in order to create or expand their private sectors, but also on the nature of party system competition and the quality of democracy in particular countries. To illustrate her claim, Pitcher draws on several original data sets covering twenty-seven countries in Africa, and detailed case studies of the privatization process in Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa. This study underscores the importance of formal institutions and political context to the design and outcome of economic policies in developing countries.
Author : Lisa Mueller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108423671
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Political Protest in Contemporary Africa written by Lisa Mueller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at protests from Senegal to Kenya, Lisa Mueller shows how cross-class coalitions fuel contemporary African protests across the continent.
Author : Nora Kenworthy
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826521568
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Mistreated written by Nora Kenworthy and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As global health institutions and aid donors expanded HIV treatment throughout Africa, they rapidly "scaled up" programs, projects, and organizations meant to address HIV and AIDS. Yet these efforts did not simply have biological effects: in addition to extending lives and preventing further infections, treatment scale-up initiated remarkable political and social shifts. In Lesotho, which has the world's second highest HIV prevalence, HIV treatment has had unintentional but pervasive political costs, distancing citizens from the government, fostering distrust of health programs, and disrupting the social contract. Based on ethnographic observation between 2008 and 2014, this book chillingly anticipates the political violence and instability that swept through Lesotho in 2014. This book is a recipient of the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine.
Author : Michael Bratton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521556125
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Democratic Experiments in Africa written by Michael Bratton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appendix: The Data Set.
Author : Alex de Waal
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842777077
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book AIDS and Power written by Alex de Waal and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Bob Reinalda
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134113056
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of International Organization written by Bob Reinalda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook brings together scholars whose essays discuss significant issues with regard to international organization as a process and international organizations as institutions. Although the focus is on intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are discussed where relevant. The handbook is divided into six parts: Documentation, Data Sets and Sources International Secretariats as Bureaucracies Actors within International Bureaucracies Processes within International Bureaucracies Challenges to International Organizations, and Expanding International Architectures. The state-of-the-art articles are meant to encourage current and future generations of scholars to enjoy working in and further exploiting the field and are also of great interest to practitioners of international organization and global governance
Author : Randolph Leigh, Patricia
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1615207945
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)
Download or read book International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide: Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives written by Randolph Leigh, Patricia and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book explores and presents research that centers on the historical, political, sociological, and economic factors that engender global inequities"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Heather A. Thuynsma
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 0798302925
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (983 download)
Download or read book Public Opinion and Interest Group Politics written by Heather A. Thuynsma and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pt. 1: Public opinion and interest group politics around the world: instructive insight?: Special interests and how they help shape US legislation: interesting possibilities or potential pitfalls -- Fundraising for social change in the US: interest group advocacy in contemporary US elections -- Interest groups in the German political system: advice for South Africa. Pt. 2: Public opinion and interest group politics in South Africa: comparing perspectives: Understanding the South African political psyche -- The character of the South African state: the self-understanding of the ANC as government and its impact on the public space -- The methodology of polling public opinion in South Africa: measuring the pulse of the people -- Managing public opinion during the 2009 South African elections -- The possibilities of election campaigns as sites for political advocacy: South Africa in comparative perspective -- Challenges for interest groups and their advocacy campaigns: the case of sustainable medium density housing -- An interest group at work: environmental activism and the case of acid mine drainage on Johannesburg's West Rand. Pt. 3: Championing public opinion: a future for interest groups?: Managing campaigns to influence the public policy agenda: putting theory into practice -- Advocacy and financing that shapes and shifts public opinion -- Government and access effects on the use of social networking sites by nationwide NGOs in the US, South Africa and Mexico -- The ability of social movements to affect policy change in South Africa and the United States: comparing and contrasting key elements of HIV/AIDS treatment and welfare entitlement campaigns -- Beyond appeasement: the real business agenda -- Democracy without choice? Interest groups, advocacy and political behaviour in Namibia: a warning for South Africa?
Author : Ericka A. Albaugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190657561
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Tracing Language Movement in Africa written by Ericka A. Albaugh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great diversity of ethnicities and languages in Africa encourages a vision of Africa as a fragmented continent, with language maps only perpetuating this vision by drawing discrete language groups. In reality, however, most people can communicate with most others within and across linguistic boundaries, even if not in languages taught or learned in schools. Many disciplines have looked carefully at language movement and change on the continent, but their lack of interaction has prevented the emergence of a cohesive picture of African languages. Tracing Language Movement in Africa gathers eighteen scholars together to offer a truly multidisciplinary representation of language in Africa, combining insights from history, archaeology, religion, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. The resulting volume illuminates commonalities and distinctions in these disciplines' understanding of language change and movement in Africa. The volume is empirical -- aiming to represent language more accurately on the continent -- as well as theoretical. It identifies the theories that each discipline uses to make sense of language movement in Africa in plain terms and highlights the themes that cut across all disciplines: how scholars use data, understand boundaries, represent change, and conceptualize power. The volume is organized to reflect differing conceptions of language that arise from its discipline-specific contributions: that is, tendencies to study changes that consolidate language or those that splinter it, viewing languages as whole or in part. Each contribution includes a short explanation of a discipline's theoretical and methodological approaches to language movement and change to ensure that the chapters are accessible to non-specialists, followed by an illustrative empirical case study. This volume will inspire multidisciplinary conversations around the study of language change in Africa, opening new interdisciplinary dialogue and spurring scholars to adapt the questions, data, and method of other disciplines to the problems that animate their own fields.
Author : Y. Mine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113732970X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Preventing Violent Conflict in Africa written by Y. Mine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horizontal inequalities are root causes of violent conflict in Africa. Yet, people take actions not because of statistical data on inequalities, of which they might not be aware, but because of injustices they perceive. This volume analyses the results of original surveys with over 3,000 respondents in African cities and towns, exposing clear discrepancies between objective inequalities and people's subjective perceptions. The contributors examine experiences in country pairs and probe into the reasons why neighbouring countries, sharing common historical traits, sometimes took contrasting pathways of peace and violent conflict. Combining quantitative analysis and qualitative anatomy of historical experiences of conflict and reconciliation in Rwanda, Burundi, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and Nigeria, the study brings forward a set of policy recommendations for development practitioners. This work further addresses the issue of institutional choice and reveals how sustainable power-sharing and decentralisation contribute to political stability in Africa.
Author : Eric Stollenwerk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019267479X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Effective and Legitimate Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood written by Eric Stollenwerk and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can effective and legitimate governance be ensured where state institutions are weak? This is a key question for domestic and international politics. One answer to this question that has received considerable attention in political science, but also among development agencies and international organizations, is virtuous circles of governance. In such circles, effective and legitimate governance are thought to be mutually reinforcing. The idea is that more effective governance leads to more legitimacy and more legitimacy to more effectiveness in governance. In many parts of the world, however, state institutions are weak and citizens perceive governance as ineffective and governance actors lack legitimacy. This places a large question mark behind the idea of virtuous circles of governance. Effective and Legitimate Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood asks: How likely are virtuous circles of governance to evolve in areas of limited statehood? The central claim of this book is that virtuous circles of governance are possible in areas of limited statehood, but more likely to evolve for external and non-state actors than for the state. The state is often part of the governance problem rather than the solution. Based on a new theoretical model for the interplay between effective and legitimate governance, the study provides in-depth empirical evidence for its argument by drawing on innovative qualitative and quantitative data. The case studies of Sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria, and Afghanistan underline the key argument by considering state, external, and non-state actors. The book offers conceptual innovations, new empirical evidence, and policy recommendations of how to ensure effective and legitimate governance in areas of limited statehood.
