LEADER 04617nam 2200601 450 001 9910463752903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-62637-106-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000546549 035 $a(EBL)3329099 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001133944 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12493202 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133944 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11161184 035 $a(PQKB)11128988 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3329099 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3329099 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10913718 035 $a(OCoLC)871258557 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000546549 100 $a20140902h20122012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGoverning Africa's changing societies $edynamics of reform /$fedited by Ellen M. Lust, Stephen N. Ndegwa ; contributors, Catherine Boone [and seven others] 210 1$aBoulder, Colorado ;$aLondon, [England] :$cLynne Rienner Publishers,$d2012. 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (251 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58826-834-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1-The Challenges of Governance in Africaa???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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""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-Womena???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"" 327 $a""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"" 607 $aAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xPolitics and government$y1960- 607 $aAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xSocial conditions$y1960- 607 $aAfrica, Sub-Saharan$xEconomic conditions$y1960- 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a320.967 702 $aLust$b Ellen 702 $aNdegwa$b Stephen N. 702 $aBoone$b Catherine 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463752903321 996 $aGoverning Africa's changing societies$91957215 997 $aUNINA