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CONFLICT MANAGEMENT--AFRICA --- DEMOCRATIZATION--AFRICA --- AFRICA--NATIONAL SECURITY
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Political systems --- Community organization --- Africa --- #SBIB:324H71 --- #SBIB:324H74 --- #SBIB:328H41 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Politieke verandering: modernisatie, democratisering, regional development --- Politieke verandering: sociale bewegingen --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Social movements --- Civil society --- Democratization --- Democracy --- Social movements - Africa. --- Civil society - Africa. --- Democracy - Africa. --- Democratization - Africa.
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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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Three leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern Africa. Extensive research and interviews with civil society organizers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, and Swaziland inform this analysis of the challenges faced by non-governmental organizations in relating both to the attendant inequality of globalization and to grassroots struggles for social justice.
Social movements - Africa, Southern --- Social movements - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Post-apartheid era - Africa, Southern --- Civil society - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Democratization - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Capitalism - Social aspects - Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Africa, Sub-Saharan - Social conditions - 1960 --- -Africa, Southern - Social conditions - 1994 --- -Social movements --- Social movements --- Post-apartheid era --- Civil society --- Democratization --- Capitalism --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Africa, Southern
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Les disparités entre les 53 pays du continent africain sont telles qu’il paraît bien difficile, à première vue, de comprendre les grandes questions politiques sans tomber dans les généralisations abusives et les idées reçues. Le professeur Mamoudou Gazibo réussit pourtant à présenter les grands enjeux de l’Afrique depuis les années d’indépendance, en privilégiant une approche transversale qui tient compte tout à la fois de la diversité et des questions communes. Dans un souci pédagogique exemplaire, cet ouvrage aborde tour à tour la nature de l’État, l’autoritarisme, les déterminants des conflits, les processus de démocratisation, les tentatives de développement, les politiques d’intégration et la construction de l’Union africaine. Dans cette deuxième édition, l’intégration fait l’objet de deux chapitres (politique et économique) et un nouveau chapitre est consacré aux défis posés à la relation traditionnelle de l’Afrique avec l’Occident au regard de l’intérêt croissant que lui témoigne la Chine.
Démocratisation --- Democratization --- Union africaine --- African Union --- Afrique --- Africa --- Politique et gouvernement --- Histoire militaire --- Politics and government --- History, Military --- Démocratisation --- Union africaine. --- African Union. --- AU (African Union) --- União Africana --- UA (Union africaine) --- Ittiḥād al-Ifrīqī --- Ittiḥād al-Afrīqī --- Afrikan Union --- Organization of African Unity --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Démocratisation - Afrique --- Democratization - Africa --- Afrique - Politique et gouvernement - 1960 --- -Afrique - Politique et gouvernement - 1945-1960 --- Afrique - Histoire militaire - 20e siècle --- Africa - Politics and government - 1960 --- -Africa - Politics and government - 1945-1960 --- Africa - History, Military - 20th century --- sciences sociales --- politique --- gouvernement --- transition démocratique
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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the history of democracy in Africa and explains why the continent's democratic experiments have so often failed, as well as how they could succeed. Nic Cheeseman grapples with some of the most important questions facing Africa and democracy today, including whether international actors should try and promote democracy abroad, how to design political systems that manage ethnic diversity, and why democratic governments often make bad policy decisions. Beginning in the colonial period with the introduction of multi-party elections and ending in 2013 with the collapse of democracy in Mali and South Sudan, the book describes the rise of authoritarian states in the 1970s; the attempts of trade unions and some religious groups to check the abuse of power in the 1980s; the remarkable return of multiparty politics in the 1990s; and finally, the tragic tendency for elections to exacerbate corruption and violence.
Political systems --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Democracy --- Democratization --- Political parties --- Elections --- Political participation --- Démocratie --- Démocratisation --- Partis politiques --- Participation politique --- History --- Histoire --- Africa --- Afrique --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Transition démocratique --- Afrique noire --- #SBIB:328H41 --- #SBIB:96G --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Polls --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Representative government and representation --- Parties, Political --- Party systems, Political --- Political party systems --- Divided government --- Intra-party disagreements (Political parties) --- Political conventions --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- New democracies --- Self-government --- Equality --- Republics --- History. --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Geschiedenis van Afrika --- Démocratie --- Démocratisation --- Histoire. --- Afrique subsaharienne --- Democracy - Africa - History --- Democratization - Africa - History --- Political parties - Africa - History --- Elections - Africa - History --- Political participation - Africa --- Africa - Politics and government - 1960 --- -Africa - Politics and government - 1945-1960
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