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Record Nr.

UNINA9910316450803321

Titolo

Accountable government in Africa : perspectives from public law and political studies / / editors, Danwood M. Chirwa, Lia Nijzink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo, Japan : , : United Nations University Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-920541-63-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

352.3/5096

Soggetti

Government accountability - Africa

Electronic books.

Africa Politics and government 1960-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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 takenroot in Africa. this book represesents new knowldge 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.