With first-hand knowledge of the continent, the contributors analyze the issues, trends, and challenges for Africa's democratic growth. They show that strengthening democratic institutions, opening up the political space for enhanced participation and ensuring political accountability will determine the course and quality of Africa's democracy.
With first-hand knowledge of the continent, the contributors analyze the issues, trends, and challenges for Africa's democratic growth. They show that strengthening democratic institutions, opening up the political space for enhanced participation and ensuring political accountability will determine the course and quality of Africa's democracy.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Said Adejumobi is Director of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa based in Lusaka, Zambia. Before then, he was the Director of the Governance and Public Administration Division of the UNECA at the headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He holds a PhD in Political Science and was a University Professor who taught for about two decades. He also served as Governance Adviser to the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja, Nigeria. He has published extensively in the areas of Democracy, Governance, and Socio-economic Development in Africa with 8 books and over 70 scholarly articles in learned journals and chapters in books.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Unbundling Liberal Democracy: Institutions, Participation and Accountability Part I: Institutions, Accountability and Reforms 2. African Presidentialism Revisited: Between "Big Man Metaphor" and Institutional Politics 3. Presidentialism in Ghana: Examining Institutional Effectiveness for Horizontal Accountability between the Legislature and the Executive 4. The Presidency and Democratic Developmentalism in Southern Africa 5. Explaining the Mixed Fortunes of Africa's Opposition Parties in the Quest for State Power: An Institutional and Strategic Analysis 6. Political Parties and Democratic Development in Africa 7. Promoting Accountable Governance in Africa: Issues, Challenges and Policy Reforms Part II: Popular Participation 8. Rethinking Organised Labour's Engagement with the Political Process in Nigeria: Issues in Alliance Building and Popular Participation 9. "Political Representation in the Mauritian Democracy: Analyzing the Gender Deficit 10. From the Newspaper to Facebook: New Media, Intermediality and Political Participation in Africa 11. The Role of the Right of Access to information for Democratization and Governance in Africa
1. Unbundling Liberal Democracy: Institutions, Participation and Accountability Part I: Institutions, Accountability and Reforms 2. African Presidentialism Revisited: Between "Big Man Metaphor" and Institutional Politics 3. Presidentialism in Ghana: Examining Institutional Effectiveness for Horizontal Accountability between the Legislature and the Executive 4. The Presidency and Democratic Developmentalism in Southern Africa 5. Explaining the Mixed Fortunes of Africa's Opposition Parties in the Quest for State Power: An Institutional and Strategic Analysis 6. Political Parties and Democratic Development in Africa 7. Promoting Accountable Governance in Africa: Issues, Challenges and Policy Reforms Part II: Popular Participation 8. Rethinking Organised Labour's Engagement with the Political Process in Nigeria: Issues in Alliance Building and Popular Participation 9. "Political Representation in the Mauritian Democracy: Analyzing the Gender Deficit 10. From the Newspaper to Facebook: New Media, Intermediality and Political Participation in Africa 11. The Role of the Right of Access to information for Democratization and Governance in Africa
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