Governing Africa's changing societies : dynamics of reform / Ellen M. Lust, Stephen N. Ndegwa.

By:

Lust, Ellen

Contributor(s):

Ndegwa, Stephen N

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012Description: 1 online resource (vii, 243 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781626371064
1626371067

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Governing Africa's changing societiesDDC classification:

320.967 23

LOC classification:

JQ1879.A15 L87 2012eb

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Contents:

The challenges of governance in Africa's changing societies / Ellen M. Lust and Stephen N. Ndegwa --- The democracy-governance connection / Michael Bratton --- Democracy and economic performance / Peter Lewis --- Contested land rights in rural Africa / Catherine Boone --- Property rights : preferences and reform / Ato Kwamena Onoma --- Women's rights and family law reform in francophone Africa / Susanna D. Wing --- Religion, democracy, and education reform in the Sahel / Leonardo A. Villalón --- Rethinking the dynamics of reform / Ellen M. Lust and Stephen N. Ndegwa.

Summary: What is the cumulative impact of the immense social, economic, and political changes that Africa has undergone in recent decades? What opportunities do those changes present to improve the lives of the continent's citizens? Countering the prevailing mood of pessimism in the face of disappointed expectations, the authors of Governing Africa's Changing Societies demonstrate the significance of even incomplete reforms in the areas of competitive elections and democratization, gender relations, property rights, the public sector, and privatization, among others. In the aggregate, their work reveals how seemingly small or sluggish changes are accumulating to fundamentally, and positively, transform Africa's governance environment.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-227) and index.

What is the cumulative impact of the immense social, economic, and political changes that Africa has undergone in recent decades? What opportunities do those changes present to improve the lives of the continent's citizens? Countering the prevailing mood of pessimism in the face of disappointed expectations, the authors of Governing Africa's Changing Societies demonstrate the significance of even incomplete reforms in the areas of competitive elections and democratization, gender relations, property rights, the public sector, and privatization, among others. In the aggregate, their work reveals how seemingly small or sluggish changes are accumulating to fundamentally, and positively, transform Africa's governance environment.

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