[PDF] Elusive Promise Of Ngos In Africa eBook

Author : S. Dicklitch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 22,24 MB
Release : 1998-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230502113

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Dicklitch challenges the dominant discourse of neo-liberalism which places NGOs and civil society at the forefront of democratization and development in Africa. Based on nine months of field research in Uganda, the study draws on evidence from the 'successfully' liberalizing country and shows how NGO potential for democratization and development has been subverted by state directives, structural and historical conditions, as well as the internal limitations of NGOs.

Author : Susan Dicklitch
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780585034881

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This work challenges the dominant discourse of neo-liberalism which places NGOs and civil society at the forefront of democratization and development in Africa. Based on nine months field research in Uganda, the study draws on evidence from the successfully liberalizing country and shows how NGO potential for democratization and development has been subverted by state directives, structural conditions and historical conditions, as well as the internal limitiations of NGOs.

Author : Claude Emerson Welch
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812235692

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Claude E. Welch, Jr.

Author : Wolfgang Stuppert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030227928

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This book explores why democratization processes in Sub-Saharan Africa have made so little progress despite more than two decades of multi-party politics on the subcontinent. By applying multiple linear regression analyses to a new data set on multi-party elections in Sub-Saharan Africa, the study investigates the relationship between political mobilizations and electoral competitiveness. It finds that the more societal groups engage in political mobilizations, such as protests and strikes, the more competitive elections become. Based on these results, the author argues for a change in the policies of international democracy assistance programs. The study’s findings suggest that efforts to promote democracy would likely be more successful if international donors focused their support on organizations that have active constituencies and are willing to use their mobilization capacity to address ruling elites with political or socio-economic grievances.

Author : Joanna R. Quinn
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0774818468

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"This highly original study not only provides a fascinating analysis of the lesser-known truth commissions in Haiti and Uganda but also sheds light on the complex factors that affect the success or failure of truth commissions in fostering acknowledgement and furthering democratic change. This book should be widely read by those interested in truth commissions, transitional justice, and the politics of acknowledgement."---Bronwyn Anne Leebaw, Political Science, University of California, Riverside --

Author : F. Wafula Okumu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429557477

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Originally published in 2004. Genocide in Rwanda, massive floods of refugees and displaced people in the Horn of Africa, violent civil wars in the West African countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia - these are testimonies to the tremendous cost to grassroots communities when the authority and legitimacy of national political systems and leaders are called into question. The consolidation of democracy represents one tangible strategy to restore authority and legitimacy of political rule, providing the peace and security necessary for political enfranchisement and economic opportunity. This volume explores the factors that are crucial to the emergence of democratic political systems on the African continent, specifically focusing on Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. It highlights the political challenges facing these countries during this crucial transition period, and provides insights that are applicable to other countries engaged in this process in Africa and beyond.

Author : Nicolas Van de Walle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 24,47 MB
Release : 2006-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1403981280

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As the World Bank famously put it back in 1989, 'underlying the litany of Africa's development problems is a crisis of governance.' This is a collection of authoritative essays bringing together prominent Africanists in political science and public administration to look at the role of governance in African development. The goal of the book is to move beyond the status quo debates about 'structural adjustment' and to look at all the public and civic institutions which are likely to play a critical role if Africa is to overcome its economic crisis.

Author : Shirley Ardener
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857458868

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In both professional and academic fields, there is increasing interest in the way in which white-collar workers engage with institutions and networks which are complex social constructions. Covering a wide variety of countries and types of organization, this volume examines the diverse ways in which individuals’ ethnic, gender, corporate and professional identities interact. This book brings together fields often viewed in isolation: ethnographies of groups traditionally studied by anthropologists in new organisational contexts, and examinations of the role of identity in corporate life, opening up new perspectives on central areas of contemporary human activity. It will be of great interest to those concerned with practical management of institutions, as well as those of us who find ourselves working within them.