Federalism and Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Herausgeber: Erk, Jan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

All African countries to the south of the Sahara had become either federal or decentralized in the 1990s. This volume combines a general overview as well as case-studies aiming to provide a comprehensive view of how things look now. This book was original published as a special issue of Regional and Federal Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781138747920
• ISBN-10: 1138747920
• Artikelnr.: 57046668

Autorenporträt

Jan Erk is currently the Jan Smuts Memorial Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK. He completed his doctorate at McGill University and his post-doctoral studies at the University of Toronto in Canada. In 2018, he will become a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Federalism and Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Five Patterns of
Evolution 2. Federalism in Africa: Origins, Operation and (In)Significance
3. When Decentralization Leads to Recentralization: Subnational State
Transformation in Uganda 4. Ethnic Decentralization and the Challenges of
Inclusive Governance in Multiethnic Cities: The Case of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
5. Decentralization in Post-Apartheid South Africa 6. The Geography of
Governance in Africa: New Tools from Satellites, Surveys and Mapping
Initiatives