Bernard Matolino

Consensus as Democracy in Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. Central to his challenge to the claimed viability of consensus as a democratic system are three major questions: Is consensus genuinely superior to its majoritarian counterpart? Is consensus itself truly a democratic system? Is consensus sufficiently different from the one-party system? In taking up these issues and others closely associated with them, Matolino shows that consensus as a system of democracy encounters several challenges that make its viability highly doubtful. Matolino then attempts a combination of an understanding of an authentic mode of democracy with African reality to work out what a more desirable polity would be for the continent.

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Produktdetails

• African Humanities Series
• Verlag: NISC (Pty) Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781920033316
• ISBN-10: 1920033319
• Artikelnr.: 56882854

Autorenporträt

Bernard Matolino is an associate professor in philosophy at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg campus, South Africa. He is the author of Personhood in African Philosophy (2014).