Growing Democracy in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing Democracy in Africa write by Mamoudou Gazibo. This book was released on 2016-02-08. Growing Democracy in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is the state of governance in sub-Saharan Africa? Is it possible to identify the best practices and approaches to establishing political systems that promote accountability, transparency, peace, and civic space for all? These are the questions addressed in this book. While the concept of governance is considered to be central to political science, our understanding of it is still imprecise, with extant studies focused primarily either on think-tank indicators, economic management, or political studies of democratization. This book critically examines the record on democratization in Africa thus far, and seeks a new, integrated, focused approach to the study of governance. Such an approach requires revisiting the concept of governance itself, with emphasis on certain decisive components and critical issues. Considered in a democratic framework, the concept of governance can be employed to cast light on accountability issues in several arenas, four of which are considered in detail in this volume: institutions and the rule of law; constitution-making, elections, and political conflict settlement; distribution of power and citizenship; and political economy and corruption. Each contribution offers particular insights in one of these arenas. With a huge and varied continent in rapid flux to study, the sheer amount and variety of interesting new research is enormous. It is expected that the discussions contained herein and the various challenges, achievements, and lessons outlined will contribute to research, inform teaching, and lead to a greater understanding of the issues of democratic consolidation and economic development in Africa.
Growing Democracy in Africa: Elections
Growing Democracy in Africa: Elections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Growing Democracy in Africa: Elections write by Mamoudou Gazibo Muna Ndulo. This book was released on 2016. Growing Democracy in Africa: Elections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Democracy in Africa
Democracy in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy in Africa write by Nic Cheeseman. This book was released on 2015-05-12. Democracy in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Engendering Democracy in Africa
Engendering Democracy in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Engendering Democracy in Africa write by Niamh Gaynor. This book was released on 2022-06-01. Engendering Democracy in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates women’s political participation in Africa. Going beyond the formal institutions of electoral politics, it explores a range of spaces where everyday politics take place, at national and at local levels. In recent years there have been significant improvements in the number of women elected to parliament in Africa. However, there is little indication that this is translating into better developmental outcomes, and indeed there is mounting evidence that it could in fact help to bolster some authoritarian regimes. Starting from the premise that politics is a far broader project than securing a seat in national or local legislatures alone, this book explores the opportunities for women’s political participation across a number of informal spaces where women and men gather, organise and interact in a more regular and systematic manner. Combining insights from political science, sociology and feminist theory and drawing on detailed cases from the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria and Rwanda, it examines how power in its multiple dimensions circulates across a range of everyday political spaces, while drawing attention to the links between domestic gender inequalities and the global political economy. Inviting scholars, practitioners and activists to broaden their focus beyond formal electoral institutions if they want to support women to become more politically active, this book provides fresh insights into major issues at the heart of African studies, development studies, gender and development, democratisation, and international relations.
Why Africa Fails
Why Africa Fails - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Africa Fails write by Elly Twineyo-Kamugisha. This book was released on 2012. Why Africa Fails available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Africa should accept that its present malaise is largely due to its own mistakes: greed, poor policies and a lack of leadership. Blaming colonialism for Africa's failings belongs to the past. This fresh look at Africa and its prospects provides original, thought-provoking answers to some old questions.
