[PDF] Governance Democracy And Development eBook

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2015-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9956763004

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Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in the view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remains a perennial question why some decades after political independence in Africa the continent continues experiencing bad governance, lagging behind socioeconomically, and its democracy questionable. We admit that a plethora of theories and reasons, including iniquitous and malicious ones, have been conjured in an attempt to explain and answer the questions as to why Africa seems to be lagging behind other continents in issues pertaining to good governance, democracy and socio-economic development. Yet, none of the theories and reasons proffered so far seems to have provided enduring solutions to Africa’s diverse complex problems and predicaments. This book dissects and critically examines the matrix of Africa’s multifaceted problems on governance, democracy and development in an attempt to proffer enduring solutions to the continent’s long-standing political and socio-economic dilemmas and setbacks.

Author : Anil Kumar Thakur
Publisher : Deep and Deep Publications
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : 9788184501629

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In Indian context.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category :
ISBN : 9264183639

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There is growing recognition of the need for new approaches to the ways in which donors support accountability, but no broad agreement on what changed practice looks like. This publication aims to provide more clarity on the emerging practice.

Author : Yi Feng
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262562119

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A theoretical and empirical examination of why political institutions and organizations matter in economic growth.

Author : Adrian Leftwich
Publisher : Polity
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 1996-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745612676

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This book calls into question the current western orthodoxy about the relationship of democracy and development, exploring the theoretical issues involved in the relationship and examining a number of case sudies.

Author : A. Carl LeVan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 12,79 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107081149

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This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.

Author : G. Shabbir Cheema
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1565491971

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Annotation Bridges the gap between theoretical literature and the tools and practices needed to strengthen or rebuild democratic institutions and reform governance systems. Through case studies and examples of good practices of governance, Cheema assesses the conditions that make democracy work.

Author : Rita Abrahamsen
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2000-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Examines contemporary development theory and discourse and explores its relationship to processes of democratization in sub-Saharan Africa. Focuses on the emergence and implementation of the good governance discourse. Draws on examples from four countries to demonstrate the impact of structural adjustment on economic and social conditions and describes the activities of democracy movements opposed to adjustment programmes. Concludes that the good governance agenda has been largely unsuccessful in promoting stable multi-party democracies in Africa.

Author : Claude Ake
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2001-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815723482

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Despite three decades of preoccupation with development in Africa, the economies of most African nations are still stagnating or regressing. For most Africans, incomes are lower than they were two decades ago, health prospects are poorer, malnourishment is widespread, and infrastructures and social institutions are breaking down. An array of factors have been offered to explain the apparent failure of development in Africa, including the colonial legacy, social pluralism, corruption, poor planning and incompetent management, limited in-flow of foreign capital, and low levels of saving and investment. Alone or in combination, these factors are serious impediments to development, but Claude Ake contends that the problem is not that development has failed, but that it was never really on the agenda. He maintains that political conditions in Africa are the greatest impediment to development. In this book, Ake traces the evolution and failure of development policies, including the IMF stabilization programs that have dominated international efforts. He identifies the root causes of the problem in the authoritarian political structure of the African states derived from the previous colonial entities. Ake sketches the alternatives that are struggling to emerge from calamitous failure--economic development based on traditional agriculture, political development based on the decentralization of power, and reliance on indigenous communities that have been providing some measure of refuge from the coercive power of the central state. Ake's argument may become a new paradigm for development in Africa.

Author : Jeffrey Witsoe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 022606350X

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Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy against Development, Jeffrey Witsoe investigates this counter-narrative, uncovering an antagonistic relationship between recent democratic mobilization and development-oriented governance in India. Witsoe looks at the history of colonialism in India and its role in both shaping modern caste identities and linking locally powerful caste groups to state institutions, which has effectively created a postcolonial patronage state. He then looks at the rise of lower-caste politics in one of India’s poorest and most populous states, Bihar, showing how this increase in democratic participation has radically threatened the patronage state by systematically weakening its institutions and disrupting its development projects. By depicting democracy and development as they truly are in India—in tension—Witsoe reveals crucial new empirical and theoretical insights about the long-term trajectory of democratization in the larger postcolonial world.