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In Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies, M. Anne Pitcher offers an engaging new theory to explain the different trajectories of private sector development across contemporary Africa. Pitcher argues that the outcomes of economic reforms depend not only on the kinds of institutional arrangements adopted by states in order to create or expand their private sectors, but also on the nature of party system competition and the quality of democracy in particular countries. To illustrate her claim, Pitcher draws on several original data sets covering twenty-seven countries in Africa, and detailed case studies of the privatization process in Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa. This study underscores the importance of formal institutions and political context to the design and outcome of economic policies in developing countries.

Economic policy and planning (general) --- Political parties --- Africa --- Democratization --- #SBIB:328H41 --- #SBIB:33H13 --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Economische politiek --- Economic policy. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- E-books

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Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation. Conventionally, both academic literature as well as development policies depict corruption as the lynchpin of politics in Africa, locking African societies into political orders which subvert democratic change. Drawing on the findings of a case study of the construction industry in Tanzania, Lucy Koechlin conceptualises corruption as a signifier enabling, rather than preventing, social actors to articulate democratic claims. She provides compelling arguments for a more sophisticated understanding of and empirical attentiveness to emancipatory change in African political orders.

Political sociology --- Africa --- Political corruption --- Democratization --- Politics and government --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:35H52 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Ethiek van bestuur en beleid --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960. --- Democratization -- Africa. --- Political corruption -- Africa. --- History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Africa

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This book surveys the history of armed conflict in Africa in the period since decolonization and independence. The number of post-independence conflicts in Africa has been considerable, and this book introduces to readers a comprehensive analysis of their causes and character. Tracing the evolution of warfare from anti-colonial and anti-apartheid campaigns to complex conflicts in which factionalized armies, militias and rebel groups fight with each other and prey upon non-combatants, it allows the readers a new perspective to understand violence on the continent. The book is written to appeal not only to students of history and African politics, but also to experts in the policy community, the military and humanitarian agencies.

Violence --- #SBIB:327.5H21 --- #SBIB:327.6H01 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- History --- Vrede – oorlog, oorlogssituaties --- Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: specifieke conflicten --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- History, Military --- History of Africa --- Polemology --- Arts and Humanities

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In the early 1990s, a wave of democratisation swept the African continents, resulting in a flurry of constitution-making and constitutional revision. Two decades later, leading experts in the fields of public law, political sciemnce and democratisation studies assess to what extent accountable governance has taken root in Africa. this book represents new knowledge about legal and political developments in a number of African countries - Ghana, Malawi, Mali, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, with further references to Mozambique, Kenya and Swaziland - bringing the policy goal of developing and deepening democratic governance and accountable government on the continent up to date.

Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-. --- Government accountability -- Africa. --- Government accountability --- Government - Non-U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Government - Asia --- Accountability in government --- Public administration --- Responsibility --- Africa --- Politics and government --- #SBIB:328H41 --- #SBIB:35H6050 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Bestuur en beleid: nationale en regionale studies: Afrika --- Etnografie: Afrika

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'What are democracies meant to do? And how does one know when one is a democratic state?' These incisive questions and more by leading political scientist, Steven Friedman, underlie this robust enquiry into what democracy means for South Africa post 1994. Democracy and its prospects are often viewed through a lens which reflects the dominant Western understanding. New democracies are compared to idealised notions of the way in which the system is said to operate in the global North. The democracies of Western Europe and North America are understood to be the finished product and all others are assessed by how far they have progressed towards approximating this model. The goal of new democracies, like South Africa and other developing nation-states, is thus to become like the global North. Power in Action persuasively argues against this stereotype. Friedman asserts that democracies can only work when every adult has an equal say in the public decisions that affect them. From this point of view, democracies are not finished products and some nations in the global South may be more democratic than their Northern counterparts. Democracy is achieved not by adopting idealised models derived from other societies - rather, it is the product of collective action by citizens who claim the right to be heard not only through public protest action, but also through the conscious exercise of influence on public and private power holders. Viewing democracy in this way challenges us to develop a deeper understanding of democracy's challenges and in so doing to ensure that more citizens can claim a say over more decisions in society.

Democracy --- Citizenship --- #SBIB:324H71 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- Birthright citizenship --- Citizenship (International law) --- National citizenship --- Nationality (Citizenship) --- Political science --- Public law --- Allegiance --- Civics --- Domicile --- Political rights --- Politieke verandering: modernisatie, democratisering, regional development --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Law and legislation --- South Africa --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Politics and government