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Institutions and Development in Africa

By: John Mukum Mbaku

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Institutions and Development in Africa

By: John Mukum Mbaku

A significant contribution to the debate on poverty alleviation in Africa, Professor Mbaku offers practical policies for economic growth. He argues that the most important contributor to poverty and deprivation in Africa is the absense of institutional structures that enhance indigenous entrepreneurship and wealth creation. He explains that these are so vital that living standards will continue to deteriorate unless these building blocks are put in place.

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Africa World Press

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1592212077

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Institutions and Collective Choice in Developing Countries

Applications of the Theory of Public Choice

By: Mwangi S. Kimenyi,John Mukum Mbaku

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Institutions and Collective Choice in Developing Countries

Applications of the Theory of Public Choice

By: Mwangi S. Kimenyi,John Mukum Mbaku

First published in 1999, this volume is written by seasoned public choice scholars and is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on peaceful coexistence and sustainable development in developing countries. The book contains a rich mixture of analytical ideas and views on collective choice and macroeconomic performance in developing countries. This book breaks new ground in that it is the first comprehensive application of the theory of public choice to collective decision making in developing societies. It provides both students of Third World studies and policy makers in developing societies an in-depth analysis for institutions for collective choice. For countries undergoing major reform of their political and economic institutions, public choice theory can provide significant and useful insights, and help these societies design and adopt institutional arrangements that enhance peaceful coexistence of groups, the creation of wealth and sustainable development. Specifically, the book successfully shows that: (1) the application of economic theory to the study of public policy in the developing countries can provide important insights into collective decision-making; (2) the application of public choice theory to the study of developing societies can significantly improve the efficiency of bureaucratic and governmental systems, and consequently, promote economic, political and social development; and (3) public choice can help developing societies design and sustain effective laws and institutions for peaceful coexistence of groups and achieve sustainable development.

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0429806310

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Corruption in Africa

Causes, Consequences, and Cleanups

By: John Mukum Mbaku

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Corruption in Africa

Causes, Consequences, and Cleanups

By: John Mukum Mbaku

Corruption in Africa makes a significant contribution to the study of the impacts and eradication of corruption in African societies. John Mukum Mbaku offers a comprehensive analysis of the causes of public malfeasance in African countries and provides a number of practical and effective policy options for change. This book demonstrates the destructive relationship between corruption and the abrogation of economic freedoms and entrepreneurship, a system that has clearly left Africa as one of the most deprived regions in the world. Utilizing the tools of public choice theory, Mbaku emphasizes the important role that institutions have in corruption control and he recommends reconstructive democratic constitutions as the most effective means of development. Until African states provide their people with institutional arrangements that adequately constrain the state and enhance wealth production, the living standards in the continent will continue to deteriorate. Corruption in Africa is a fascinating and informative text that will appeal to those interested in African studies and developmental policies.

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0739113178

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Institutions and Development in Africa

By: John Mukum Mbaku

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Contemporary Economic Issues in Developing Countries

By: John Baffoe-Bonnie,Mohammed Khayum

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Contemporary Economic Issues in Developing Countries

By: John Baffoe-Bonnie,Mohammed Khayum

Important lessons for policy makers are provided here as contributors evaluate the effectiveness of domestic economic policies and the recommendations of international organizations such as the World Bank regarding the economic development of developing countries. Challenges posed by debt problems, corruption, population dynamics, poverty, and the absence of adequate human and physical capital are highlighted. Contributors cast doubts on the conclusions of the prevailing theories of economic development with patterns of economic change over the course of the 20th century. Their findings point out the issue of inadequate social capability as a critical factor in understanding the lack of economic development in many developing countries. They suggest that contemporary theorizing tends to pinpoint necessary but insufficient conditions for the successful implementation of development strategies in these countries.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313057001

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Combating Corruption

Legal Approaches to Supporting Good Governance and Integrity in Africa

By: John Hatchard

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Combating Corruption

Legal Approaches to Supporting Good Governance and Integrity in Africa

By: John Hatchard

John Hatchard considers the need for good governance, accountability and integrity in both the public and private sector. He studies how these issues are reflected in both the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption and the Unit

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1781004374

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Class Formations and Inequality Structures in Contemporary African Migration

Evidence from Ghana

By: John A. Arthur

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Class Formations and Inequality Structures in Contemporary African Migration

Evidence from Ghana

By: John A. Arthur

This book examines the influences of social class and inequality structures on migration in Africa using information from Ghana. As the country achieves moderate to significant economic gains driven (in part) by the country’s diaspora communities, the desire to migrate has intensified. Migration is now synonymous with social mobility and self-improvement. It has been found that existing class and status inequalities are analytically inseparable from the social and cultural processes underpinning the motivations behind Ghanaian migration. Migrant class and socioeconomic attributes are closely intertwined, reinforcing and operating at every level of the migration decision-making to influence the motivation to migrate, the type and form of migration, the direction of the migration, its timing, and ultimately the outcomes and expectations that migrants associate with their decision to migrate. From a historical and contemporary perspective, this book argues that power and class-based structural relationships are significant components in understanding how migratory diasporas shape and are shaped in turn by social class and inequality. The social class identities that Ghanaian immigrants manifest in the United States are often based on immigrant formulations and importation of class dynamics from the home country. These identities are then transformed in the countries of destination and replayed or relived back home, thereby creating multiple class identities that are powerful forces in inducing social changes. In essence, migrant social class attributes formed before and post-migration is significant because it holds the possibilities of transforming the social structures of migrant-sending countries. As migrants return home and seek reintegration into the body polity of the home society, conflicts emanating from changes in their class dynamics may hinder or promote sociocultural and economic development. Hence, the imperative of the central government is to understand and incorporate into national development planning the social class characteristics of its citizens who are leaving, as well as those who are returning.

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Lexington Books

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1498503845

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Majority State Ownership of Oil and Mining Sectors in Africa

The Resource Curse Undermined

By: John James Quinn

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Majority State Ownership of Oil and Mining Sectors in Africa

The Resource Curse Undermined

By: John James Quinn

Majority State Ownership of Oil and Mining Sectors in Africa: The Resource Curse Undermined shows that countries in sub-Saharan Africa with majority state ownership of their major oil or mineral export sectors suffered from more severe versions of the natural resource curse than other similar countries. Examining natural resource exporting nations in sub-Saharan Africa between 1966 to 2000, Quinn shows that on average, states with majority state ownership of these sectors featured lower growth, lower incomes, declining alternative export sectors, more debt, lower levels of investment, lower levels of political and civil rights, and more domestic conflict than other similar countries. These results remained fairly consistent across both cross-country data, as well as in paired case studies. One surprise finding is that these countries either had depreciating currencies, or did not feature high levels of currency appreciation, on average, which is inconsistent with resource curse literature predictions. Rather, most countries with majority state ownership had high levels of currency overvaluation – which operated in a similar manner as currency appreciation. This work should appeal to students and faculty interested in the political economy of development, the natural resource curse, and African development, as well as politicians, policy makers, and NGO workers working in these areas. The strong recommendation of the book is that governments should control 50% or less of these sectors.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429751869

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The Dragon and the Eagle

By: Karen Eggleston,John D. Donahue,Richard J. Zeckhauser

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The Dragon and the Eagle

By: Karen Eggleston,John D. Donahue,Richard J. Zeckhauser

This comparative study allows decision-makers to understand and use public-private collaboration to achieve governance goals.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108837077

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Hyper-Organization

Global Organizational Expansion

By: Patricia Bromley,John W. Meyer

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Hyper-Organization

Global Organizational Expansion

By: Patricia Bromley,John W. Meyer

Hyper-Organization offers an institutional explanation for the expansion of formal organization in the contemporary era-in numbers, internal complexity, social domains, and national contexts. Much expansion is hard to justify in terms of technical production or political power, it lies in areas such as protecting the environment, promoting marginalized groups, or behaving with transparency. The authors argue that expansion is supported by widespread cultural rationalization characterized by scientism, rights and empowerment discourses, and an explosion of education. These cultural changes are transmitted through legal, accounting, and professionalization principles, driving the creation of new organizations and the elaboration of existing ones. The resulting organizations are constructed to be proper social actors, as much as functionally effective entities. They are painted as autonomous and integrated but depend heavily on external definitions to sustain this depiction. So expansion creates organizations that are, whatever their actual effectiveness, structurally arational. This book advances theories of social organization in three main ways. First, by giving an account of the expansive rise of 'organization' rooted in rapid worldwide cultural rationalization. Second, explaining the construction of contemporary organizations as purposive actors, rather than passive bureaucracies or loose associations. Third, showing how the expanded actorhood of the contemporary organization, and the associated interpenetration with the environment, dialectically generate structures far removed from instrumental rationality.

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Oxford University Press

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0191004146

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The New United Nations

International Organization in the Twenty-First Century

By: John Allphin Moore, Jr.,Jerry Pubantz

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The New United Nations

International Organization in the Twenty-First Century

By: John Allphin Moore, Jr.,Jerry Pubantz

With a fresh look at challenges to the UN in Syria, Iran, Russia, and elsewhere, the second edition of this successful text highlights new international trends toward global governance, holistic democracy and human development, and progress on peacebuilding and counterterrorism. A comprehensive guide to the world body's institutions, procedures, policies, specialized agencies, historic personalities, initiatives, and involvement in world affairs, The New United Nations is organized thematically, blending both topical and chronological explanations making reference to current scholarly terms and theories. New to this edition: Fully updated chapters and a new Introduction, including discussion of the Paris Climate Change Agreement, Human Rights Council, and Peacebuilding Commission; New sections on Special Rapporteurs and Special Procedures, the theory and practice of neoliberalism, the UN’s endorsement of the "Responsibility to Protect," and Contact Groups; Unique special section on the student Model United Nations experience; Coverage of the UN’s fifteen-year assessment of the Millennium Development Goals and the consequent approval of the Sustainable Development Goals; and eResources with supportive materials and documents.

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1317288432

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Health in a Fragile State

Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo

By: John M. Janzen

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Health in a Fragile State

Science, Sorcery, and Spirit in the Lower Congo

By: John M. Janzen

Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s. This work brings into focus John M. Janzen's earlier books on African health and healing, revealing the collaborative effort by local, national, and international agencies to create viable alternative institutions to those that represented the centralized state. This book documents and analyzes the realignment of existing institutions and the creation of new ones that shape health and healing. Janzen explores the manner in which power and information, including science, are legitimized in the preservation and improvement of health. Institutional validity and knowledge empower citizens and health practitioners to gain the upper hand over the region's principal diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, and HIV/AIDS.

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University of Wisconsin Press

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0299325008

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Al-shabaab And Boko Haram: Guerrilla Insurgency Or Strategic Terrorism?

By: John Maszka

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Al-shabaab And Boko Haram: Guerrilla Insurgency Or Strategic Terrorism?

By: John Maszka

Boko Haram is now the deadliest 'terrorist' organization operational in the world, by virtue of the sheer number of people the group have killed. Together with al-Shabaab, the two groups account for a substantial amount of carnage on the African continent. Analyzed here are the ideologies of these two infamous organizations. Utilizing information from breadcrumbs that they leave behind, in videos, media releases and various correspondence, this book searches for clues within the historical and contemporary social context that explain their existence. It explores the ideological roots the two organizations share and examines the goals and objectives of each group in order to calculate the nature of the threat posed in the broader international realm. It is argued that through applying strategic theory, and specifically the concept of strategic terrorism, it is possible to form a deeper understanding of two of the most dangerous militant organizations in operation today.

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World Scientific

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1786344009

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Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East

An Encyclopedia

By: John A. Shoup

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Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East

An Encyclopedia

By: John A. Shoup

This encyclopedia is an essential guide to the different ethno-linguistic groups in Africa and today's complicated Middle East region. Ethnic Groups of Africa and the Middle East contains encyclopedic entries arranged alphabetically within ethno-linguistic classifications. Each entry has four main sections: an introduction identifying the language group, where they are found, and their numbers; a brief discussion of their origins and early history; a section on cultural life that includes religion, literature, social organization, and art; and a final section on political organization and recent history. The contents are appropriate for high school and undergraduate students as well as for experts who need a refresher on groups in Africa and the Middle East. While certain ethnic groups have been combined into a single entry, some—such as the Tuareg, who are a Berber people—are described within their own entries because of their importance in history or cultural domination.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Public Finance and Public Choice

Analytical Perspectives

By: John Cullis,Philip Jones

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Public Finance and Public Choice

Analytical Perspectives

By: John Cullis,Philip Jones

Public Finance and Public Choice provides a comprehensive analysis of the economics of the public sector, taking a diagrammatic approach to the subject. Particular emphasis is given to the public choice and behavioural economics schools of thought.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199234787

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A Comment on Presidential Pronouncements

By: JOHN KOMBE

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A Comment on Presidential Pronouncements

By: JOHN KOMBE

Presidential pronouncementshold more power than we canimagine. The pronouncementsthat are made in the course ofoccupying the highest office inthe land are critical to thehealth of a nation. I do notenvy this office because onemust think before they speak, atask that the Zambian President hashandled well. Here are a fewcomments on some selectedpronouncements that havebeen made by the President ofZambia, H.E Edgar ChagwaLungu. The comments give aglimpse into the critical worldas we seek to be a part of ournational ideology ofparticipatory democracythrough tenets such as thefreedom of speech.

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Lulu.com

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1326996649

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A Guided Reader to Research in Comparative Criminology/criminal Justice

By: John Winterdyk

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A Guided Reader to Research in Comparative Criminology/criminal Justice

By: John Winterdyk

With this publication the editors offer the first comprehensive text designed to assist, facilitate and guide interested researchers in how to engage in comparative criminological/criminal justice research. The editors have collected a series of nine articles which serve to illustrate examples to facilitate the reader in how to conduct such research. Each of the articles is accompanied with a series of questions and useful web-links to further assist the reader and/or student.

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Brockmeyer Verlag

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381960717X

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Christianity and Democracy

A Theology for a Just World Order

By: John W. De Gruchy

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Christianity and Democracy

A Theology for a Just World Order

By: John W. De Gruchy

The need for global democratisation is now widely recognised, but there is considerable debate about what this means and how it can be achieved. In this important study John de Gruchy examines the historic and contemporary roles of Christianity in the development of democracy. He traces the gestation of modern democracy in medieval Christendom, and then describes the virtual breakdown of the relationship as democracy becomes the polity of modernity. Five twentieth-century case studies - the USA, Nicaragua, sub-Saharan Africa, Germany and South Africa - demonstrate the extent to which ecumenical Christianity has begun to reconnect with democracy and act as its contemporary midwife. De Gruchy argues that democracy needs to rediscover its spiritual heritage, while Christianity needs to develop a theology adequate for its participation in the realisation of a just democratic world order.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521458412

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Planning Under Pressure

The Strategic Choice Approach

By: John Kimball Friend,Allen Hickling

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Planning Under Pressure

The Strategic Choice Approach

By: John Kimball Friend,Allen Hickling

Planning Under Pressure' offers a versatile and practical set of planning methods for collaborative decision making, which is ideally suited for reaching decisions in conditions of uncertainty. This approach is equally valid for planning and development decisions in local government and strategic business planning. When 'Planning Under Pressure' appeared in 1987, it was the first mature exposition of the Strategic Choice Approach. Since then, the approach has been gathering support among decision makers, while also becoming widely taught in management, planning and policy schools. The second edition reflects the diverse range of contexts in which the Strategic Choice Approach is now put to work: management, urban planning, public policy making, community action, and sustainable development in third world countries. New material includes a chapter on the role of software, and coverage of recent theoretical advances. * Versatile and practical set of planning methods for collaborative decision making * Valuable approach for a wide range of professions and markets * Clearly presented for ease of reference

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Elsevier

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075062955X

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A Political Discourse on Michael Chilufya Sata: His Vision and Legacy: Revised edition

By: JOHN KOMBE

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A Political Discourse on Michael Chilufya Sata: His Vision and Legacy: Revised edition

By: JOHN KOMBE

The revised edition of this book is about the man of action who lived his life for the common man, a man who did extraordinary things for his country, a man who dared the odds to serve his people through ways that are not common among the common, a man who left behind a vision that is worth championing, a man who mentored common men into men of candid action for the glory of mother Zambia, a man who sacrificed his life for both the poor and the rich, a man who did not seek his own, but labored to see good for his country, a man of action and defined only by his bold and courageous approach to life and politics, a man who dreamt beyond selfish gain, a man who dreamt beyond his own glory, a man who dared to dream for the people of the lowest social and economic status, a man who wanted to serve both the rich and the poor, no wonder he was called the man of action. This was the man, the fifth republican president of Zambia, His Excellency the late Michael Chilufya Sata (1936- 2014).

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0244760276

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Corruption in Africa

Causes, Consequences, and Cleanups

By: John Mukum Mbaku

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Corruption in Africa

Causes, Consequences, and Cleanups

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The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights

International Law, State Practice, and the Emerging Abolitionist Norm

By: John Bessler

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The Death Penalty's Denial of Fundamental Human Rights

International Law, State Practice, and the Emerging Abolitionist Norm

By: John Bessler

This book details how capital punishment violates universal human rights and traces the evolution of the world's understanding of torture.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108845576

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Protecting Minority Rights in African Countries

A Constitutional Political Economy Approach

By: John M. Mbaku

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Protecting Minority Rights in African Countries

A Constitutional Political Economy Approach

By: John M. Mbaku

In this enlightening book, John Mukum Mbaku analyses the main challenges of constitutional design and the construction of governance institutions in Africa today. He argues that the central issues are: providing each country with a constitutional order that is capable of successfully managing sectarian conflict and enhancing peaceful coexistence; protecting the rights of citizens ? including those of minorities; minimizing the monopolization of political space by the majority (to the detriment of minorities); and, effectively preventing government impunity. Mbaku offers a comprehensive analysis of various approaches to the management of diversity, and shows how these approaches can inform Africa?s struggle to promote peace and good governance. He explores in depth the existence of dysfunctional and anachronistic laws and institutions inherited from the colonial state, and the process through which laws and institutions are formulated or constructed, adopted, and amended. A close look at the constitutional experiences of the American Republic provides important lessons for constitutional design and constitutionalism in Africa. Additionally, comparative politics and comparative constitutional law also provide important lessons for the management of diversity in African countries. Mbaku recommends state reconstruction through constitutional design as a way for each African country to provide itself with laws and institutions that reflect the realities of each country, including the necessary mechanisms and tools for the protection of the rights of minorities. From students and scholars to NGOs, lawyers and policymakers, this unique and judicious book is an essential tool for all those seeking to understand and improve governance and development in Africa.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1786438615

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