Author: Dele Olowu Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers ISBN: 9781588261731 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 324
Book Description
An exploration of why some decentralization reforms have led to viable systems of local governance in Africa, while others have failed. It outlines the key issues involved, provides historical context, and identifies the factors that have encouraged or discouraged success.
Author: Moses M. D. Warioba Publisher: Research Information and Publication Department ISBN: Category : Decentralization in government Languages : en Pages : 298
Author: Tim Kelsall Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute ISBN: 9789171065339 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 84
Book Description
The Governance Agenda is the framework that currently organizes the West’s relations with Africa. The present work is an attempt to see Governance through the lens of a contemporary, local history. The report analyzes three periods of contentious politics at local level in Tanzania and two multi-party elections. It provides a window on mismanagement in local government, it examines the intervention by national and local elites in district conflicts, and it points to the difficulties ordinary people face in holding their leaders to account. The argument of the report is that current approaches to the study of Governance overlook an essential ingredient for its potential success: namely, the sociological conditions in which forms of collective action conducive to improved political accountability become possible at a grassroots level. The analysis aims to show that economic diversification and multiple livelihoods have given rise to a reticular social structure in which individuals find it difficult to combine to hold their leaders to account. People have fragmented identities formed in networks of social relations, which impedes the emergence of strong collective identities appropriate to effective social movements.
Author: Dele Olowu
Author: Amon Chaligha
Author: Moses M. D. Warioba
Author: Monsiapile Kajimbwa
Author: Meda Couzens
Author: John A. O. Max
Author: Erica Spring De Sousa
Author: Tim Kelsall
Author: Moses M. D. Warioba
Author: Philip Mawhood