Kieh / Agbese Reconstituting the State in Africa

2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-60694-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 308 Seiten, eBook

Contributors to this volume highlight the failure and socio-economic and political problems of post-colonial African state and make constructive and convincing suggestions of how the problems can be addressed. They do not argue for the scrapping of the state but its reconstitution in ways that will enable it to be people's-oriented.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kieh, G.

Agbese, P.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: BACKGROUND Introduction: Democratizing States and Sate Reconstitution in Africa; P.O.Agbese & G. Klay Kieh, Jr. PART II: CASE STUDIES Statecraft in Botswana: Renegotiating Development, Legitimacy, and Authority; O.Selolwane The State in Cote d'Ivoire: Evolution and Constraints; B.N'Diaye Re-Inventing and Rebuilding the Ghanaian State: Towards a New Triumphalism?; E.Kwesi-Aning Reflections on The State In Kenya; A.Naguku-Ayuk Reconfiguring and Re-inventing State-Society Relations in Mauritius; S.Bunwaree The Imperatives of Reconstructing the State in Nigeria: The Politics of Power, Welfare, and Imperialism in the New Millennium; S.Alubo The Post-Apartheid State in South; V.Maloka Part III: PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE State Renewal in Africa: The Lessons; P.O.Agbese & George Klay Kieh, Jr.

Über Autor(innen)

GEORGE KLAY KIEH JR. is Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Morehouse College, USA. PITA AGBESE is Professor, Center for International Peace and Security Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Northern Iowa, USA.