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The Failure Of The Centralized State

Institutions And Self-governance In Africa

By: James Wunsch,Dele Olowu,John W Harbeson,Vincent Ostrom

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The Failure Of The Centralized State

Institutions And Self-governance In Africa

By: James Wunsch,Dele Olowu,John W Harbeson,Vincent Ostrom

This book is an outcome of the workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, held in Indiana, during the 1985/86. It seeks to explains why the centralized African state has failed and discusses the breakdown of social processes indirectly caused by the policies of the centralized state.

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Routledge

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1000301311

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Local Governance in Africa

The Challenges of Democratic Decentralization

By: Dele Olowu,James Stevenson Wunsch

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Local Governance in Africa

The Challenges of Democratic Decentralization

By: Dele Olowu,James Stevenson Wunsch

An exploration of why some decentralization reforms have led to viable systems of local governance in Africa, while others have failed. It outlines the key issues involved, provides historical context, and identifies the factors that have encouraged or discouraged success.

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Lynne Rienner Publishers

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1588261735

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Rethinking Civil Society Regionalism in Africa

Challenges and Opportunities in Democratic Participation and Peacebuilding in the Post-ECOWAS Vision 2020

By: Dele Kogbe

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Rethinking Civil Society Regionalism in Africa

Challenges and Opportunities in Democratic Participation and Peacebuilding in the Post-ECOWAS Vision 2020

By: Dele Kogbe

This book interrogates the extent to which regional civil society organisations have evolved as actors in West Africa. Examining civil society democratic participation in regional integration and involvement in regionalism of peacebuilding, it rethinks how we study civil society in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region. Beyond the functional typology of civil society actors as ‘partner’, ‘legitimiser’, ‘resistance/counter-hegemonic’ and ‘manipulator’, the book develops a new analytical framework to understand how organisations such as the West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF) and West African Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) have evolved. Offering analytical perspectives of the actorship of specific regional civil society actors, the book draws attention to the tendencies in the previous studies of mistaking an action or misdeed that is empirically specific to particular civil society organisations within a region to the generality of the civic space of the region. Providing an alternative perspective aimed at invoking a new intellectual conversation about civil society regionalism this book advances a new analytical framework of action-based regional identity of civil society, regional presence of activities, regional capacities and societal impact. It will be of interest to academics and scholars of international relations, global governance, African politics and comparative regionalism.

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Taylor & Francis

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100073577X

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9781000735772

Local Governance in Africa

The Challenges of Democratic Decentralization

By: Dele Olowu,James Stevenson Wunsch

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The Challenges of Democratic Decentralization

By: Dele Olowu,James Stevenson Wunsch

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The Failure Of The Centralized State

Institutions And Self-governance In Africa

By: James Wunsch,Dele Olowu,John W Harbeson,Vincent Ostrom

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Institutions And Self-governance In Africa

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Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective

By: Norbert Kersting,Janice Caulfield,R. Andrew Nickson,Dele Olowu,Hellmut Wollmann

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Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective

By: Norbert Kersting,Janice Caulfield,R. Andrew Nickson,Dele Olowu,Hellmut Wollmann

Good local governance" reflects the dual functions of local government. On the one hand, democratic regimes gain input legitimacy by responsiveness and by being inclusive towards the preferences of their citizens. On the other hand, they achieve output legitimacy by effectively delivering public goods and services. Their governance strategies follow three major paths - "decentralisation," "political administrative reforms" and "participatory reforms". But national contexts, actors, political culture and path dependency matter a lot. In this book continent-wide developments are compared by using relevant country studies. This comparative approach focuses on "developing countries" in Asia, Africa and Latin America, comparing and contrasting their experience with that of European countries

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Springer-Verlag

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353116953X

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Book's by Dele Olowu

The Failure Of The Centralized State

The Failure Of The Centralized State

Local Governance in Africa

Local Governance in Africa

Rethinking Civil Society Regionalism in Africa

Rethinking Civil Society Regionalism in Africa

Local Governance in Africa

Local Governance in Africa

The Failure Of The Centralized State

The Failure Of The Centralized State

Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective

Local Governance Reform in Global Perspective

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