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Title State recognition and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa : a new dawn for traditional authorities? / edited by Lars Buur and Helene Maria Kyed
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages)
Series Palgrave studies in governance, security, and development
Palgrave studies in governance, security, and development.
Contents Traditional authority and democratization in Africa / Helene Maria Kyed and Lars Buur -- Bringing the sultan back in : elders as peacemakers in Ethiopia's Somali region / Tobias Hagmann -- Ambivalent role of chiefs : rural decentralization initiatives in Malawi / Asiyati Lorraine Chiweza -- Chiefs, policing, and vigilantes : "cleaning up" the Caprivi borderland of Namibia / Wolfgang Zeller -- Traditional authority in Mozambique : the legible space between state and community / Lars Buur and Helene Maria Kyed -- Traditional chieftaincy, party politics, and political violence in Burkina Faso / Sten Hagberg -- From pastoral to state politics : traditional authorities in northern Somalia / Markus V. Höhne -- Traditional authority : accountablility and governance in Zimbabwe / Everisto Mapedza -- "Now we are a town" : chiefs, investors, and the state in Zambia's western province / Wolfgang Zeller
Summary Being critical and empirically grounded, the book explores the complex, often counter-balancing consequences of the involvement of traditional authority in the wave of democratization and liberal-style state-building that has rolled over sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Central-local government relations -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Tribal government -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Chiefdoms -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Democratization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
Political structures: democracy -- Africa.
Educational: History -- Africa.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Politics and Government.
Central-local government relations
Chiefdoms
Democratization
Politics and government
Tribal government
Demokratisierung
Häuptling
Lokaal bestuur.
Tribale groepen.
Democratisering.
SUBJECT Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001684
Subject Sub-Saharan Africa
Subsaharisches Afrika
Afrika.
Form Electronic book
Author Buur, Lars.
Kyed, Helene Maria.
ISBN 9780230609716
0230609716
9781349369805
1349369802