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Governance and Politics in Africa / ed. by Michael Bratton, Goran Hyden.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (329 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781555872342
  • 9781685853297
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Governance and the Study of Politics -- 2 Toward Governance in Africa: Popular Demands and State Responses -- 3 Governance, Democracy, and the 1988 Senegalese Elections -- 4 State-Society Relations in Botswana: Beginning Liberalization -- 5 Accommodation in the Midst of Crisis? Assessing Governance in Nigeria -- 6 Liberalization, Governance, and Political Space in Ghana -- 7 Grassroots Legitimation of Military Governance in Burkina Faso and Niger: The Core Contradictions -- 8 The Rise and Fall of a Governance Realm in Kenya -- 9 Rwanda: Recent Debates over Governance and Rural Development -- 10 Local Organizations, Participation, and the State in Urban Tanzania -- 11 Initiatives From Below: Zaire's Other Path to Social and Economic Restructuring -- 12 The Institutional Bases of Governance in Africa -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: A discussion of the concept of "governance" and its use in comparative politics today introduces case studies from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zaire.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781685853297

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Governance and the Study of Politics -- 2 Toward Governance in Africa: Popular Demands and State Responses -- 3 Governance, Democracy, and the 1988 Senegalese Elections -- 4 State-Society Relations in Botswana: Beginning Liberalization -- 5 Accommodation in the Midst of Crisis? Assessing Governance in Nigeria -- 6 Liberalization, Governance, and Political Space in Ghana -- 7 Grassroots Legitimation of Military Governance in Burkina Faso and Niger: The Core Contradictions -- 8 The Rise and Fall of a Governance Realm in Kenya -- 9 Rwanda: Recent Debates over Governance and Rural Development -- 10 Local Organizations, Participation, and the State in Urban Tanzania -- 11 Initiatives From Below: Zaire's Other Path to Social and Economic Restructuring -- 12 The Institutional Bases of Governance in Africa -- Bibliography -- About the Authors -- Index -- About the Book

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A discussion of the concept of "governance" and its use in comparative politics today introduces case studies from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zaire.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)

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