African Governance
Post-Election Violence in Africa: The Impact of Judicial Independence
1st Edition
By Meshack Simati
September 30, 2021
This book explores the effect of the judiciary on the incidence of post-election violence by political actors across Africa and within African countries. It examines how variation in judicial independence can constrain or incentivize election violence among democratizing states.Using case studies ...
The Everyday State in Africa: Governance Practices and State Ideas in Ethiopia
1st Edition
By Daniel Mulugeta
September 30, 2021
This book reconceptualises the idea of the state in Ethiopia. It focuses on the cultural and political processes of state formation, and reveals the complexity of state–society relations as they unfold in the everyday context of local life. It does so by exploring specific configurations of ...
Destabilising Interventions in Somalia: Sovereignty Transformations and Subversions
1st Edition
By Debora Valentina Malito
June 30, 2021
This book is a critical reading of contemporary interventionism, exploring how interventions shape the course of conflicts and reconciliation processes in Somalia. In a critical departure from the state-capacity consensus that has dominated the debate on terrorism and state failure, this book ...
African Presidential Republics
1st Edition
By Jean Blondel
March 31, 2021
This book provides a systematic assessment of the behaviour of some relatively successful presidents in African presidential republics, examining the part played by presidents in the development of their countries. Using two groups of case studies, African Presidential Republics examines the ...
Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia
1st Edition
By Asafa Jalata
March 31, 2021
This book focuses on and examines the impact of cultural capital, political economy, social movements, and political consciousness on the potential development of substantive democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia. While explaining the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities for the development of ...
Dimensions of African Statehood: Everyday Governance and Provision of Public Goods
1st Edition
By Randi Solhjell
March 31, 2021
This book argues that the way in which we use the concept of "state" in many African countries must involve a deeper engagement of the complex workings of state–society relations, rather than a master narrative of European state formation.Dimensions of African Statehood explores the concept of "...
Islamist Foreign Policy in Sudan: Between Radicalism and the Search for Survival
1st Edition
By Mohammed H. Sharfi
March 31, 2021
Examining the role played by ideology, internal politics and key figures within Sudan after the 1989 coup, this book analyses policymaking in the Sudanese administration in-depth and studies its effect on international and domestic politics and foreign policy.The military coup undertaken in June ...
Non-State Social Protection Actors and Services in Africa: Governance Below the State
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Awortwi, Gregor Walter-Drop
September 01, 2020
For millions of Africans, the social situation is dire. Over half of the population of Sub-Sahara Africa do not have access to improved sanitation facilities, and about a quarter are undernourished. If factors such as armed conflicts in the region, the impact of climate change, or the widespread ...
Aid Relations and State Reforms in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Politics of Mutual Accommodation and Administrative Neglect
1st Edition
By Stylianos Moshonas
August 14, 2020
Since 2001 The Democratic Republic of Congo has been engaged in a three-fold transition process towards liberalisation, democratisation, and peace. Throughout this process, external actors (donors, international financial institutions, the UN system, aid agencies) have played a leading role, ...
Institutional Legacies, Decision Frames and Political Violence in Rwanda and Burundi
1st Edition
By Stacey Mitchell
August 14, 2020
Rwanda and Burundi are strikingly similar countries that underwent democratization in the early 1990s. In both, resistance to democratic reforms led to coups d’état and presidential assassinations. A conundrum arises in terms of what transpires next. In Rwanda, total genocide was perpetrated by ...
South Sudan: Post-Independence Dilemmas
1st Edition
Edited
By Amir Idris
August 14, 2020
South Sudan: Post-Independence Dilemmas is an interdisciplinary collection of essays which engages with the failure of the newest African State to transition itself successfully to a state and nation after its independence in July 2011.The contributors explore the prospects for new modes of ...
The Rwenzururu Movement in Uganda: Struggling for Recognition
1st Edition
By Martin Doornbos
August 14, 2020
This book provides a comprehensive account and analysis of the Rwenzururu movement in Western Uganda. The movement began in the 1960s in the Rwenzori region of Toro District, and was a protest by the minority Bakonzo and Baamba ethnic groups against their continued discrimination and ...