04617nam 2200601 450 991046375290332120200520144314.01-62637-106-7(CKB)2670000000546549(EBL)3329099(SSID)ssj0001133944(PQKBManifestationID)12493202(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133944(PQKBWorkID)11161184(PQKB)11128988(MiAaPQ)EBC3329099(Au-PeEL)EBL3329099(CaPaEBR)ebr10913718(OCoLC)871258557(EXLCZ)99267000000054654920140902h20122012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGoverning Africa's changing societies dynamics of reform /edited by Ellen M. Lust, Stephen N. Ndegwa ; contributors, Catherine Boone [and seven others]Boulder, Colorado ;London, [England] :Lynne Rienner Publishers,2012.©20121 online resource (251 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58826-834-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1-The Challenges of Governance in Africaâ€?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-Womenâ€?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""Africa, Sub-SaharanPolitics and government1960-Africa, Sub-SaharanSocial conditions1960-Africa, Sub-SaharanEconomic conditions1960-Electronic books.320.967Lust EllenNdegwa Stephen N.Boone CatherineMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463752903321Governing Africa's changing societies1957215UNINA