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Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa

By: Nelson Kasfir

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Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa

By: Nelson Kasfir

Civil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled successfully to Africa. Revived in response to the search for democracy in Eastern Europe during the late Soviet era, Western donors promoted and funded new civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa, regarding them as an essential grounding for African democratization. Most of these new civil society organizations had little in common with African associational activity. Focusing on the characteristics and behavior of long-standing African organizations would appear a better starting point for developing a useful concept of an African civil society. One candidate worth serious investigation is the Buganda Kingdom Government. This organization violates most distinctions central to Western notions of civil society. Yet it continues to behave like a civil society organization. Its political and conceptual collisions offer guidance toward a useful notion of African civil society and understanding Ugandan politics.

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African Books Collective

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3905758962

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The Shrinking Political Arena

Participation and Ethnicity in African Politics, with a Case Study of Uganda

By: Nelson Kasfir

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Participation and Ethnicity in African Politics, with a Case Study of Uganda

By: Nelson Kasfir

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

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0520315618

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Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa: Conceptual and Political Collisions

By: Nelson Kasfir

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Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa: Conceptual and Political Collisions

By: Nelson Kasfir

Civil society is one of several Western political and social concepts that have not traveled successfully to Africa. Revived in response to the search for democracy in Eastern Europe during the late Soviet era, Western donors promoted and funded new civil society organizations in sub-Saharan Africa, regarding them as an essential grounding for African democratization. Most of these new civil society organizations had little in common with African associational activity. Focusing on the characteristics and behavior of longstand-ing African organizations would appear a better starting point for developing a useful concept of an African civil society. One candidate worth serious investigation is the Buganda Kingdom Government. This organization violates most distinctions central to Western notions of civil society. Yet it continues to behave like a civil society organization. Its political and conceptual collisions offer guidance toward a useful notion of African civil society and understanding Ugandan politics.

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BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN

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390575889X

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State and Class in Africa

By: Nelson Kasfir

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State and Class in Africa

By: Nelson Kasfir

This collection explores the relationships of class and state in contemporary African politics.

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1317792084

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From Cameroon to Paris

Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa

By: Steven Nelson

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From Cameroon to Paris

Mousgoum Architecture In and Out of Africa

By: Steven Nelson

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University of Chicago Press

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0226571831

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The Shrinking Political Arena

Participation and Ethnicity in African Politics, with a Case Study of Uganda

By: Nelson Kasfir

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Participation and Ethnicity in African Politics, with a Case Study of Uganda

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State and Class in Africa

By: Nelson Kasfir

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This collection explores the relationships of class and state in contemporary African politics.

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Distributive Politics in Developing Countries

Almost Pork

By: Mark Baskin,Michael L. Mezey

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Distributive Politics in Developing Countries

Almost Pork

By: Mark Baskin,Michael L. Mezey

This book explores the increasing use of Constituency Development Funds (CDFs) in emerging democratic governments in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Oceania. CDFs dedicate public money to benefit parliamentary constituencies through allocations and/or spending decisions influenced by Members of Parliament (MPs). The contributors employ the term CDF as a generic term although such funds have a different names, such as electoral development funds (Papua New Guinea), constituency development catalyst funds (Tanzania), or Member of Parliament Local Area Development Fund (India), etc. In some ways, the funds resemble the ad hoc pork barrel policy-making employed in the U.S. Congress for the past 200 years. However, unlike earmarks, CDFs generally become institutionalized in the government’s annual budget and are distributed according to different criteria in each country. They enable MPs to influence programs in their constituencies that finance education, and build bridges, roads, community centers, clinics and schools. In this sense, a CDF is a politicized form of spending that can help fill in the important gaps in government services in constituencies that have not been addressed in the government’s larger, comprehensive policy programs. This first comprehensive treatment of CDFs in the academic and development literatures emerges from a project at the State University of New York Center for International Development. This project has explored CDFs in 19 countries and has developed indicators on their emergence, operations, and oversight. The contributors provide detailed case studies of the emergence and operations of CDFs in Kenya, Uganda, Jamaica, and India, as well as an analysis of earmarks in the U.S. Congress, and a broader analysis of the emergence of the funds in Africa. They cover the emergence, institutionalization, and accountability of these funds; analyze key issues in their operations; and offer provisional conclusions of what the emergence and operations of these funds say about the democratization of politics in developing countries and current approaches to international support for democratic governance in developing countries.

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Lexington Books

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073918069X

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Rebel Governance in Civil War

By: Ana Arjona,Nelson Kasfir,Zachariah Cherian Mampilly

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Rebel Governance in Civil War

By: Ana Arjona,Nelson Kasfir,Zachariah Cherian Mampilly

This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including political science, sociology, and anthropology, the book provides in-depth case studies of specific conflicts as well as comparative studies of multiple conflicts. Among other themes, the book examines why and how some rebels establish both structures and practices of rule, the role of ideology, cultural, and material factors affecting rebel governance strategies, the impact of governance on the rebel/civilian relationship, civilian responses to rebel rule, the comparison between modes of state and non-state governance to rebel attempts to establish political order, the political economy of rebel governance, and the decline and demise of rebel governance attempts.

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1316439488

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Poems, Early and Late

By: Horatio Nelson Powers

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Poems, Early and Late

By: Horatio Nelson Powers

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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3385525888

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LIFE & TIMES OF NELSON DINGLEY

By: Edward Nelson 1862-1930 Dingley

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LIFE & TIMES OF NELSON DINGLEY

By: Edward Nelson 1862-1930 Dingley

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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1372651632

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Book's by Nelson Kasfir

Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa

Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa

The Shrinking Political Arena

The Shrinking Political Arena

Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa: Conceptual and Political Collisions

Kingdom, State and Civil Society in Africa: Conceptual and Political Collisions

State and Class in Africa

State and Class in Africa

From Cameroon to Paris

From Cameroon to Paris

The Shrinking Political Arena

The Shrinking Political Arena

State and Class in Africa

State and Class in Africa

Distributive Politics in Developing Countries

Distributive Politics in Developing Countries

Rebel Governance in Civil War

Rebel Governance in Civil War

Poems, Early and Late

Poems, Early and Late

LIFE & TIMES OF NELSON DINGLEY

LIFE & TIMES OF NELSON DINGLEY

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