03917nam 2200769 450 991078053810332120230912124825.01-4875-9642-197866120369101-4426-7074-61-282-03691-210.3138/9781442670747(CKB)2430000000001323(EBL)3255324(SSID)ssj0000288511(PQKBManifestationID)11232470(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000288511(PQKBWorkID)10373630(PQKB)11621409(CaBNvSL)thg00600580 (DE-B1597)464166(OCoLC)1013949190(OCoLC)944178272(DE-B1597)9781442670747(Au-PeEL)EBL4671177(CaPaEBR)ebr11256897(OCoLC)666916509(MdBmJHUP)musev2_104407(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/06c9mw(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/6/418000(MiAaPQ)EBC4671177(MiAaPQ)EBC3255324(EXLCZ)99243000000000132320160922h20002000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAlfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival /Gerhard P. BasslerToronto, [Canada] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2000.©20001 online resource (505 p.)HeritageDescription based upon print version of record.1-4875-9815-7 0-8020-4413-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.1.Wunderkind in Reborn Latvia: Background, Education, and Civil Service Career, 1908-1938 --2.'The Most Active and Influential Member of the Cabinet': Minister of Finance, 1938-1939 --3.'Better to Die Standing Up Than to Keep on Living on Your Knees': War, Resignation, and Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 --4.'Elected to Lead and Manage Latvian National Affairs': The Janus Face of Collaboration, July 1941 to November 1942 --5.'Made No Bones about His Antipathy to the German Regime': The Janus Face of Resistance, November 1942 to May 1945 --6.'I Had Committed All My Heart and My Efforts to Latvian Exiles': Refugee Politics, 1945-1948 --7.'Starting Anew Like Our Fathers Did after the First World War': Immigrant in Canada, 1948-1950 --8.'Develop of Perish': The Challenges of Newfoundland, 1950-1955 --9.'The Past, Instead of Helping to Rebuild, Denies Itself': The Latvian Refugee Community and the Shadows of the Past, 1950-1954.In this first serious biography of Alfred Valdmanis, historian Gerhard Bassler casts the story of this political manipulator and chameleon in new terms: the often tragic consequences of the will to survive."--Jacket"Valdmanis's wily political manoeuvring is more the stuff of fiction than history. Between 1938, at age 29, and his ironic downfall in the safe haven of Canada, he was a finance minister of pre-war Latvia, a government official during the Soviet invasion, a shrewd collaborator under the Nazi occupation, then, a friend to the Allies, a spokesman for Latvian POW and displaced persons, and an adviser to the government of CanadaPolitical corruptionNewfoundland and LabradorLatviaHistory1918-1940LatviaHistory1940-1991History.Biographies.Electronic books. Political corruption971.063/3/092Bassler Gerhard P.1937-1463785MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780538103321Alfred Valdmanis and the politics of survival3673209UNINA03966nam 2200613Ia 450 991084209470332120240403192436.0978135037970113503797009781350379688135037968910.5040/9781350379701(MiAaPQ)EBC7272996(Au-PeEL)EBL7272996(OCoLC)1390921531(OCoLC)1371653451(UkLoBP)BP9781350379701BC(CKB)27704268400041(EXLCZ)992770426840004120240312d2024 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLeadership in Independent Africa, Six Decades On The Blended Representation Principle as a Cause for Afro-Optimism /Kofi Anani1st ed.London :Zed Books,2024.London :Bloomsbury Publishing (UK),2024.1 online resource (249 pages)9781350379671 1350379670 Includes bibliographical references and index.List of Tables Preface Foreword Acknowledgements About the Author 1. An Overview 2. Analytical Framework 3. Existential Realities 4. Fundamentals of the Leadership and Governance Conundrum 5. Too Blessed to be Chasing the Wind 6. The Concept of BRP 7. Conceptual Interconnections with the ideals of Transerve Leadership 8. Operationalizing BRP 9. Continental Dimensions of BRP: The African Traditional Leadership Union (ATLU) 10. BRP-Inspired Wisdom on the Practice of Democracy in Africa 11. Epilogue: An Alternate Solutions Pathway Notes Bibliography IndexIn this open access book, Kofi Anani finds ways forward through the Blended Representation Principle (BRP), which stipulates that power be shared between leaders selected on the basis of Western-democratic ideals and leaders chosen on the basis of traditional African norms and conventions. Drawing on his research and professional experience, Anani shows how incorporating the BRP into African leadership and governance thinking would encourage more voluntary public participation in politics, guarantee transparency and accountability in decision-making, particularly when it comes to the use of public resources, and ultimately encourage more public confidence in leaders. Anani also provides concrete suggestions for how to achieve all this, not through quick fixes, but rather through educational campaigns directed at public officials and through new communities of learning and practice designed to champion the BRP in villages, schools, workplaces, places of worship, and other social organizations. This book is a must-read for all scholars and students of postcolonial governance and leadership, and it is of keen interest to anyone concerned with how Western-style state-making might ultimately find a balance with other, indigenous modes of social organization. <i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.</i>Central-local government relationsAfrica20th centuryPolitical leadershipAfrica20th centuryAfricabicsscPolitical leaders & leadershipbicsscPolitics & governmentbicsscAfricaPolitics and governmentCentral-local government relationsPolitical leadershipAfricaPolitical leaders & leadershipPolitics & government320.46Anani Kofi1732524UkLoBPUkLoBPBOOK9910842094703321Leadership in Independent Africa, Six Decades On4146864UNINA