Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages) |
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Palgrave studies in governance, security, and development |
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Palgrave studies in governance, security, and development.
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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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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Central-local government relations -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Tribal government -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Chiefdoms -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Democratization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Political structures: democracy -- Africa.
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Educational: History -- Africa.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Politics and Government.
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Central-local government relations
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Chiefdoms
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Democratization
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Politics and government
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Tribal government
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Demokratisierung
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Häuptling
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Lokaal bestuur.
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Tribale groepen.
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Democratisering.
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SUBJECT |
Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001684
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Sub-Saharan Africa
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Subsaharisches Afrika
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Afrika.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Buur, Lars.
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Kyed, Helene Maria.
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ISBN |
9780230609716 |
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0230609716 |
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9781349369805 |
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1349369802 |
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