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Democracy And Socialism In Africa de Robin Cohen

Democracy And Socialism In Africa

Autor Robin Cohen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 apr 2019
After independence many African countries abjured conventional patterns of political representation and democratic participation in the interest of creating a unified state and promoting economic development. Today, however, the dominant models of one-party democracy and African socialism are in terminal collapse as a result of internal pressures a
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367015800
ISBN-10: 0367015803
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: Socialism or Democracy, Socialism and Democracy -- Controversies -- Economic Democracy, Socialism, and the “Market” -- The State, Civil Society, and Democracy in Africa: Some Theoretical Issues -- Taking Democracy Seriously: Democracy-Bureaucracy Relations -- Democracy and the Agrarian Question in Africa: Reflections on the Politics of States and the Representation of Peasants’ and Women’s Interests -- Discourses of Democracy in the South African Left: A Critical Commentary -- Cases -- The National Resistance Movement, “Grassroots Democracy”, and Dictatorship in Uganda -- Inching Towards Democracy: The Ghanaian “Revolution”, the International Monetary Fund, and the Politics of the Possible -- Pastoralists, Socialism, and Democracy: The Sudanese Experience -- The Peasantariat, Politics, and Democracy in Botswana -- Gender, Participation, and Radicalism in African Nationalism: Its Contemporary Significance -- Beyond the Nation-State? Democracy in the Regional Economic Context -- Conclusion: The Future of Democracy in Africa

Notă biografică

Robin Cohen is professor of sociology and a former director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick, Coventry. He has previously held appointments at the universities of Ibadan, Birmingham, and the West Indies. He is the author of Labour and Politics in Nigeria (1975), Endgame in South Africa (1986), The New Helots: Migrants in the International Division of Labour (1987), and Contested Domains: Debates in International Labour Studies (1991). Harry Goulbourne is principal research fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick. He lectured in politics at the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of the West Indies (Mona) for over ten years. He has written extensively on East African and Commonwealth Caribbean politics, and his publications include Politics and State in the Third World (1979), Teachers, Politics and Education in Jamaica, 1892-1972 (1988), and Ethnicity and Nationalism in Post-Imperial Britain (1991).

Descriere

In this volume of provocative essays, leading scholars from Africa, Europe, and the United States examine the extent to which popular demands for democracy are both subverting and enriching the postcolonial order in Africa.