Democratic Theory and Practice in Africa
Author : W. O. Oyugi
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9789966463852
Author : W. O. Oyugi
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : 9789966463852
Author : Walter Ouma Oyugi
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9780852553275
Africa, by Michael Chege
Author : Ian Shapiro
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400836832
In this book Ian Shapiro develops and extends arguments that have established him as one of today's leading democratic theorists. Shapiro is hardheaded about the realities of politics and power, and the difficulties of fighting injustice and oppression. Yet he makes a compelling case that democracy's legitimacy depends on pressing it into the service of resisting domination, and that democratic theorists must rise to the occasion of fashioning the necessary tools. That vital agenda motivates the arguments of this book. Tracing modern democracy's roots to John Locke and the American founders, Shapiro shows that they saw more deeply into the dynamics of democratic politics than have many of their successors. Drawing on Lockean and Madisonian insights, Shapiro evaluates democracy's changing global fortunes over the past two decades. He also shows how elusive democracy can be by exploring the contrast between its successful establishment in South Africa and its failures elsewhere--particularly the Middle East. Shapiro spells out the implications of his account for long-standing debates about public opinion, judicial review, abortion, and inherited wealth--as well as more recent preoccupations with globalization, national security, and international terrorism. Scholars, students, and democratic activists will all learn from Shapiro's trenchant account of democracy's foundations, its history, and its contemporary challenges. They will also find his distinctive democratic vision both illuminating and appealing.
Author : Christian P. Potholm
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
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Author : Rita Kiki Edozie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761841415
Since the 1990s, trends in African politics require the realization that the public policy practice and the theoretical analysis of 'democracy and democratization' are becoming increasingly important tenets for understanding the contemporary political science of the region. Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy explains these new political processes and ideas. Author Rita Kiki Edozie identifies factors that Africans have encountered since the foundation of the modern African state and presents a critical analysis of African politics through the lenses of post-colonial discourse by uniquely employing the ideas of democratic theory to guide an analysis of the Continent's democratic development and performance. Edozie presents an intra-regional comparative analysis of democratic politics in Africa in ways that few books on the same subject do for the continent. Her methodology for examining democracy in Africa reveals the dynamism of several country cases and several more regime experiences with democracy encountered from the post-World War II period to the current post-Cold War period.
Author : Heidi Brooks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030257444
This book examines the development of democratic thought in the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, with a focus on the movement’s ideas about participatory democracy. It makes particular reference to two key periods: the 1980s ‘people’s power’ movement and the subsequent years of policy formulation from 1990 when the ANC began to design and implement a system of participatory democracy alongside a representative government. Through the examination of historic documents and in-depth interviews with former ANC activists, government officials and those involved in policy development, the author explores the inspiration for the party’s commitment to establishing participatory democracy. The book combines democratic theory and political and intellectual history to look at the role of popular participation as part of a broader trajectory of the ANC’s democratic thought. It critically engages with concepts used in the party’s participatory discourse with a view to deepening our understanding of how ideas have shaped the construction of South Africa’s democracy.
Author : Goran Hyden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 36,71 MB
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1009429531
This book addresses a pertinent issue in comparative politics: how can the discipline do analytical justice to regions of the world that differ historically from the Western experience? For decades the West has served as a baseline against which all other regions are assessed, most recently in studies of democratization. Structural differences between regions have been ignored in favour of explanations based on human agency and institutions. In Theorizing in Comparative Politics, Goran Hyden uses the countries of Africa as an empirical case to demonstrate what a structural approach adds to the comparative study of democracy. Priorities like state-building challenge the effort to shape democratic regimes and call for explanations that recognize the impact of local power dynamics on the prospects for democratic development. Informative and thoughtful, this book sheds light on issues that have been underexplored in the field in recent years.
Author : Clemens Spiess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134033494
This book examines and compares the emergence, development and impact of the party systems in post-colonial India and post-apartheid South Africa. It sheds light on the crucial role and function of party systems in democratising developing countries. Although often described as political miracles or empirical anomalies, both countries actually figure prominently in party system and democratic theory due to their regional importance and the important role the party system plays in their political trajectory. The author employs a diachronic comparison of the two party systems, with a distinct focus on the role of party agency in the shaping and maintenance of one-party-dominance and on the role of the two party systems as independent variables. Highlighting the similarities and differences between the two systems, he examines whether the lessons learned from the Indian experience in terms of the function and effects of the country’s post-independent party system and the role of party agency therein are applicable to South Africa. This book will be of interest to academics working in the field of democracy, comparative politics and development in general, and South Africa and South Asia in particular.
Author : Anne Hammerstad
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Democracy
ISBN :
Author : Odonga Otto
Publisher :
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 38,29 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9789987928385