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Titolo: | Governing Africa's changing societies : dynamics of reform / / edited by Ellen M. Lust, Stephen N. Ndegwa ; contributors, Catherine Boone [and seven others] |
Pubblicazione: | Boulder, Colorado ; ; London, [England] : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2012 |
©2012 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
Disciplina: | 320.967 |
Soggetto geografico: | Africa, Sub-Saharan Politics and government 1960- |
Africa, Sub-Saharan Social conditions 1960- | |
Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic conditions 1960- | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | LustEllen |
NdegwaStephen N. | |
BooneCatherine | |
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"" | |
Titolo autorizzato: | Governing Africa's changing societies |
ISBN: | 1-62637-106-7 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910463752903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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