African Political Parties

African Political Parties
Author: Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed Salih
Publisher: OSSREA
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2003-02-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

A critique of modern African 'democracies'

A New Paradigm of the African State

A New Paradigm of the African State
Author: M. Muiu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2009-01-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0230618316

Offers a historical, multidisciplinary perspective on African political systems and institutions, ranging from Antiquity (Egypt, Kush and Axum) to the present with particular focus on their destruction through successive exogenous processes including the Atlantic slave trade, imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism or globalization.

Inside African Politics

Inside African Politics
Author: Kevin C. Dunn
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2019
Genre: Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN: 9781626378070

The second edition of Inside African Politics, updated throughout to reflect political developments across the continent, not only provides thorough coverage of the full range of core topics, but also furthers an awareness and understanding of key theoretical issues and current debates.Drawing on their extensive teaching and fieldwork experience, Pierre Englebert and Kevin Dunn offer:a straightforward, accessible style, making even complex ideas easy to understand; a balanced approach, exposing multiple perspectives on contested issues; a focus on both states and citizens, politics from above and below; discussions of existing policies, as well as policy implications of different approaches; and an abundance of rich data and illustrative examples.The result is both an essential text and a long-term resource for students and scholars alike.

Democracy in Africa

Democracy in Africa
Author: Nic Cheeseman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2015-05-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316239489

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.

Government and Politics in Africa

Government and Politics in Africa
Author: William Tordoff
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253215451

The author provides extra coverage of both North and South Africa and of such key issues as debt, the AIDS epidemic, the position of women and the politics of patronage."--BOOK JACKET.

Democracy, Good Governance and Development in Africa

Democracy, Good Governance and Development in Africa
Author: Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2015-10-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9956763004

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.

Legislative Development in Africa

Legislative Development in Africa
Author: Ken Ochieng' Opalo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2019-06-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 110849210X

Examined the development of legislatures under colonial rule, post-colonial autocratic single party rule, and multi-party politics in Africa.

Political Leadership in Africa

Political Leadership in Africa
Author: Giovanni Carbone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108423736

An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.