Governance and Politics in Africa / / ed. by Michael Bratton, Goran Hyden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Barkan, Joel D.,; Bratton, Michael,; Chazan, Naomi,; Holm, John D.,; Hyden, Goran,; Kante, Babacar,; MacGaffey, Janet,; Molutsi, Patrick P.,; Newbury, Catharine,; Robinson, Pearl T.,; Rothchild, Donald,; Tripp, Aili Mari,; Walle, Nicolas van de,; Williams, Donald C.,; Young, Crawford,
• HerausgeberIn: Bratton, Michael ,; Hyden, Goran,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1992
• Blwyddyn Gyhoeddi: 2023
• Iaith: English
• Disgrifiad Corfforoll: 1 online resource (329 p.)

A discussion of the concept of "governance" and its use in comparative politics today introduces case studies from Botswana, Burkina Faso, Niger, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Zaire.

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• 1 Governance and the Study of Politics
• 2 Toward Governance in Africa: Popular Demands and State Responses
• 3 Governance, Democracy, and the 1988 Senegalese Elections
• 4 State-Society Relations in Botswana: Beginning Liberalization
• 5 Accommodation in the Midst of Crisis? Assessing Governance in Nigeria
• 6 Liberalization, Governance, and Political Space in Ghana
• 7 Grassroots Legitimation of Military Governance in Burkina Faso and Niger: The Core Contradictions
• 8 The Rise and Fall of a Governance Realm in Kenya
• 9 Rwanda: Recent Debates over Governance and Rural Development
• 10 Local Organizations, Participation, and the State in Urban Tanzania
• 11 Initiatives From Below: Zaire's Other Path to Social and Economic Restructuring
• 12 The Institutional Bases of Governance in Africa
• Bibliography
• About the Authors
• Index
• About the Book