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Voice and Power in Africa's Democracy: Institutions, Participation and Accountability book cover

1st Edition

Voice and Power in Africa's Democracy Institutions, Participation and Accountability

Edited By Said Adejumobi Copyright 2018
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge
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Africa has made notable progress in its nascent democracy but with uneven performance across countries. However, across the board, challenges abound. Central to Africa’s checkered democratic narrative is the weakness of its democratic institutions, participatory mechanisms and accountability platforms. This book interrogates these elements with the role and capacity of the parliament, political... Read more
 

1. Unbundling Liberal Democracy: Institutions, Participation and Accountability, Said Adejumobi

Part I: Institutions, Accountability and Reforms

2. African Presidentialism Revisited: Between "Big Man Metaphor" and Institutional Politics, M.A Mohamed Salih

3. Presidentialism in Ghana: Examining Institutional Effectiveness for Horizontal Accountability between the Legislature and the Executive, John Gasu

4. The Presidency and Democratic Developmentalism in Southern Africa, George Kieh, Jr.

5. Explaining the Mixed Fortunes of Africa’s Opposition Parties in the Quest for State Power: An Institutional and Strategic Analysis, Issaka Souare

6. Political Parties and Democratic Development in Africa, Sola Oloruntoba

7. Promoting Accountable Governance in Africa: Issues, Challenges and Policy Reforms, Said Adejumobi

Part II: Popular Participation

8. Rethinking Organised Labour’s Engagement with the Political Process in Nigeria: Issues in Alliance Building and Popular Participation, Funmi Adewumi

9. "Political Representation in the Mauritian Democracy: Analyzing the Gender Deficit, Ramola Ramtohul

10. From the Newspaper to Facebook: New Media, Intermediality and Political Participation in Africa, Akin Iwilade

11. The Role of the Right of Access to information for Democratization and Governance in Africa,  

Biography

Said Adejumobi is Director of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa based in Lusaka, Zambia. Before then, he was the Director of the Governance and Public Administration Division of the UNECA at the headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He holds a PhD in Political Science and was a University Professor who taught for about two decades. He also served as Governance Adviser to the ECOWAS Commission in Abuja, Nigeria. He has published extensively in the areas of Democracy, Governance, and Socio-economic Development in Africa with 8 books and over 70 scholarly articles in learned journals and chapters in books.

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