The Quest for Democracy in Africa
Author | : Samuel Kobia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Samuel Kobia |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Crewe |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fakhreddin Azimi |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2010-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674057066 |
The Constitutional Revolution of 1906 launched Iran as a pioneer in a broad-based movement to establish democratic rule in the non-Western world. In a book that provides essential context for understanding modern Iran, Fakhreddin Azimi traces a century of struggle for the establishment of representative government. The promise of constitutional rule was cut short in the 1920s with the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty. Reza Shah, whose despotic rule Azimi deftly captures, maintained the façade of a constitutional monarch but greeted any challenge with an iron fist: “I will eliminate you,” he routinely barked at his officials. In 1941, fearful of losing control of the oil-rich region, the Allies forced Reza Shah to abdicate but allowed Mohammad Reza to succeed his father. Though promising to abide by the constitution, the new Shah missed no opportunity to undermine it. The Anglo-American–backed coup of 1953, which ousted reformist premier Mohammed Mosaddeq, dealt a blow to the constitutionalists. The Shah’s repressive policies and subservience to the United States radicalized both secular and religious opponents, leading to the revolution of 1979. Azimi argues that we have fundamentally misunderstood this event by characterizing it as an “Islamic” revolution when it was in reality the expression of a long-repressed desire for popular sovereignty. This explains why the clerical rulers have failed to counter the growing public conviction that the Islamic Republic, too, is impervious to political reform—and why the democratic impulse that began with the Constitutional Revolution continues to be a potent and resilient force.
Author | : Abadir M. Ibrahim |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2016-12-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3319183834 |
This book tests many of the assumptions, hypotheses, and conclusions connected with the presumed role of civil society organizations in the democratization of African countries. Taking a comparative approach, it looks at countries that have successfully democratized, those that are stuck between progress and regression, those that have regressed into dictatorship, and those that are currently in transitional flux and evaluates what role, if any, civil society has played in each instance. The countries discussed—South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt and Tunisia—represent a diverse set of social and political circumstances and different levels of democratic achievement, providing a rich set of case studies. Each sample state also offers an internal comparison, as each has historically experienced different stages of democratization. Along the course of each case study, the book also considers the effect that other traditionally studied factors, such as culture, colonization, economic development and foreign aid, may have had on individual attempts at democratization. The first extensive work on civil society and democratization in Africa, the book adds new insights to the applicability of democratization theory in a non-Western context, both filling a gap in and adding to the existing universal scholarship. This book will be useful for scholars of political science, economics, sociology and African studies, as well as human rights activists and policy makers in the relevant geographical areas.
Author | : Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa. Congress |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
... Contains the proceedings of the papers presented at the seventh OSSREA Congress held in December 2002, in Khartoum, Sudan.
Author | : K. A. Busia |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2023-05-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000868745 |
Originally published in 1967, reissued now with a new introduction, Africa in Search of Democracy in the author’s words was ‘a humble contribution to Africa’s search for political wisdom whereby to avoid destruction’. Written by the author during his time in voluntary exile, he was leader of the Parliamentary Opposition and of the United Party in Ghana which opposed the tyrannical rule of Nkrumah and his Convention People’s Party. In this book he proposed to examine the problems facing contemporary Africa within the context of the search for democracy; that is, for the establishment of societies which provide the best possible conditions for individual as well as social development within the widest measure of democratic freedom. The burning questions of nation building, of modernization, of raising standards of living, of achieving African unity, or harmonizing race relations and world peace, are discussed in relation to the quest for democracy.
Author | : J. Gus Liebenow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Marcel Felicity Nagar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Francis M. Deng |
Publisher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001-06-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780815723073 |
This book investigates how changing norms of sovereignty may promote better governance in Africa. It begins by tracing the evolution of the concept of sovereignty and how, in the post-Cold War era, sovereignty has been redefined to emphasize the responsibility of the state to manage conflict and protect human rights. African Reckoning includes assessments of how state actors in Africa measure up to the norms inherent in the notion of sovereignty as responsibility. The book also examines the question of accountability at the regional and international levels. The authors conclude that since the power of oppressed people to hold their governments accountable is very limited, the international community has a responsibility to provide victims of internal conflict and gross violations of human rights with essential protection and assistance. Accordingly, the book expounds on the normative principles of responsible sovereignty, international mechanisms and strategies for their enforcement, and empirical evidence about the performance of governments as measured by the requirements of responsible sovereignty. Contributors include Richard Falk, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, James Rosenau, Goran Hyden, Michael Chege, and John D. Steinbruner.