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| Author | : Pierre Englebert |
| Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781588261311 |
Englebert argues that differences in economic performance both within Africa and across the developing world can be linked to differences in historical state legitimacy.
| Author | : Michael G. Schatzberg |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2001-11-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780253108654 |
"... refreshing and provocative... a significant addition to existing literature on African politics." -- Stephen Ellis "It opens up a whole new field of investigation, and brings into focus the pertinence of an interdisciplinary approach to African politics." -- René Lemarchand In this innovative work, Michael G. Schatzberg reads metaphors found in the popular press as indicators of the way Africans come to understand their political universe. Examining daily newspapers, popular literature, and political and church documents from across middle Africa, Schatzberg finds that widespread and deeply ingrained views of government and its relationship to its citizenry may be understood as a projection of the metaphor of an idealized extended family onto the formal political sphere. Schatzberg's careful observations and sensitive interpretations uncover the moral and social factors that shape the African political universe while showing how some African understandings of politics and political power may hamper or promote the development of Western-style democracy. Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa looks closely at elements of African moral and political thought and offers a nuanced assessment of whether democracy might flourish were it to be established on middle African terms.
| Author | : Ruby Dagher |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2021-02-20 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030672549 |
This book reassesses performance legitimacy in the context of statebuilding and identifies the paradox between state institution building and state legitimacy by looking at the interplay between state legitimacy and leaders’ legitimacy The author reviews the significant weaknesses associated with the current measures of state legitimacy and uses this to demonstrate the incompatibility of these measurements with the reality faced by conflict and post-conflict countries. The author uses the Performance Legitimacy Theory of Transition framework to demonstrate the potential legitimacy paths that post-conflict countries can embark on and proposes a new approach for building state legitimacy in post-conflict countries. The author also introduces new indicators to measure performance legitimacy that also reflect its non-exclusive nature. Essential reading for students and researchers of Peace and Conflict Studies and especially of post-conflict development, peacebuilding, statebuilding, intervention, and democracy promotion. Also accessible to policy makers.
| Author | : Catherine Boone |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 428 |
| Release | : 2003-10-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521532648 |
This study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge: institutional linkages and political deals that bind center and periphery are the solutions. In African countries, rulers at the center are forced to bargain with regional elites to establish stable mechanisms of rule and taxation. Variation in regional forms of social organization make for differences in the interests and political strength of regional leaders who seek to maintain or enhance their power vis-a-vis their followers and subjects, and also vis-a-vis the center.
| Author | : Miguel A. Centeno |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 493 |
| Release | : 2017-02-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1107158494 |
An exploration of how states address the often conflicting challenges of development, order, and inclusion.
| 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.
| Author | : OECD |
| Publisher | : OECD Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 67 |
| Release | : 2010-02-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 926408388X |
State legitimacy matters because it transforms power into authority and provides the basis for rule by consent, rather than by coercion. In fragile situations, a lack of legitimacy undermines constructive relations between the state and society, and ...
| Author | : Dorothea E. Schulz |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 255 |
| Release | : 2021 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 184701268X |
An innovative examination of our understanding of political legitimacy in Mali, and its wider implications for democratization and political modernity in the Global South.
| Author | : Michael Rubin |
| Publisher | : AEI Press |
| Total Pages | : 178 |
| Release | : 2019-11-14 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0844750263 |
For decades, US foreign policy in the Middle East has been on autopilot: Seek Arab-Israeli peace, fight terrorism, and urge regimes to respect human rights. Every US administration puts its own spin on these initiatives, but none has successfully resolved the region’s fundamental problems. In Seven Pillars: What Really Causes Instability in the Middle East? a bipartisan group of leading experts representing several academic and policy disciplines unravel the core causes of instability in the Middle East and North Africa. Why have some countries been immune to the Arab Spring? Which governments enjoy the most legitimacy and why? With more than half the region under 30 years of age, why does education and innovation lag? How do resource economies, crony capitalism, and inequality drive conflict? Are ethnic and sectarian fault lines the key factor, or are these more products of political and economic instability? And what are the wellsprings of extremism that threaten not only the United States but, more profoundly, the people of the region? The answers to these questions should help policymakers and students of the region understand the Middle East on its own terms, rather than just through a partisan or diplomatic lens. Understanding the pillars of instability in the region can allow the United States and its allies to rethink their own priorities, adjust policy, recalibrate their programs, and finally begin to chip away at core challenges facing the Middle East. Contributors: Thanassis Cambanis Michael A. Fahy Florence Gaub Danielle Pletka Bilal Wahab A. Kadir Yildirim
| Author | : Sam Hickey |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0198850344 |
"A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER)"
