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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463752903321

Titolo

Governing Africa's changing societies : dynamics of reform / / edited by Ellen M. Lust, Stephen N. Ndegwa ; contributors, Catherine Boone [and seven others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado ; ; London, [England] : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-62637-106-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

320.967

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Africa, Sub-Saharan Politics and government 1960-

Africa, Sub-Saharan Social conditions 1960-

Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions 1960-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1-The Challenges of Governance in Africa�s Changing Societies""; ""Prevailing Views of Reform""; ""Understanding Change: Microtransitions""; ""Three Transformations: Implications for Governance""; ""Notes""; ""2-The Democracy-Governance Connection""; ""A Democracy-Governance Connection?""; ""Macroconnections""; ""Microconnections""; ""The Arrow of Causality""; ""Electoral Alternation""; ""The Case of Mali""; ""A Representation Gap""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""3-Democracy and Economic Performance""

""The Authoritarian Disadvantage""""A Democratic Dividend?""; ""The Paradox of Growth Without Prosperity""; ""Comparing Economic Performance""; ""Regimes, Transitions, and Growth""; ""Poverty and Popular Welfare""; ""Individual Perceptions and Measures of Welfare""; ""The Political Hazards of Economic Failure""; ""Explanations of Performance""; ""The International Dimension""; ""Prospects for Change?""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""4-Contested Land Rights in Rural Africa""; ""Land Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa""; ""Two Basic Variants of the Smallholder Land Regime""



""Destabilization of Existing Land Regimes""""Land Tenure and Land Politics in Southern Ghana""; ""The Land Regime""; ""Politicization of Land Issues in Southern Ghana""; ""Land Law Reform in Ghana""; ""Land Tenure and Land Politics in the Farming Districts of the Rift Valley, Kenya""; ""Land Regimes in the Farming Districts of the Rift""; ""Politicization of Land Issues in the Rift""; ""Land Law Reform in Kenya""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""5-Property Rights: Preferences and Reform""; ""A Theory of Resource Exploitation""; ""Revising a Revisionist Literature""

""Study Design and Data Collection""""In the Shadow of a Permissive State""; ""Divergent Responses in Ga and Akyem Abuakwa""; ""The Institutional Consequences of Land Sales""; ""Paths Diverge""; ""Tying Changing Land Use toChanging Modes of Governance""; ""Some Alternative Explanations""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""6-Women�s Rights and Family Law Reform in Francophone Africa""; ""Actors and Alliances for Family Law Reform""; ""Legal Pluralism and the Context of Reform""; ""Perceptions of Justice and Rights""; ""Reforming Family Law""; ""Benin""; ""Senegal""; ""Mali""; ""Conclusion""

""Notes""""7-Religion, Democracy, and Education Reform in the Sahel""; ""The Governance Context: Negotiating Islam and Democracy in the Sahel""; ""Reforming Education in the New Sociopolitical (Governance) Contexts""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""8-Rethinking the Dynamics of Reform in Africa""; ""The Complexity of Reform""; ""Reconsidering Development""; ""The Way Forward""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""The Contributors""; ""Index""; ""About the Book""