Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; About the Contributors; 1 Introduction: Socialism or Democracy, Socialism and Democracy; Part One: Controversies; 2 Economic Democracy, Socialism, and the ""Market; 3 The State, Civil Society, and Democracy in Africa: Some Theoretical Issues; 4 Taking Democracy Seriously: Democracy-Bureaucracy Relations; 5 Democracy and the Agrarian Question in Africa: Reflections on the Politics of States and the Representation of Peasants' and Women's Interests |
|
6 Discourses of Democracy in the South African Left: A Critical CommentaryPart Two: Cases; 7 The National Resistance Movement, ""Grassroots Democracy, "" and Dictatorship in Uganda; 8 Inching Towards Democracy: The Ghanaian ""Revolution, "" the International Monetary Fund, and the Politics of the Possible; 9 Pastoralists, Socialism, and Democracy: The Sudanese Experience; 10 The Peasantariat, Politics, and Democracy in Botswana; 11 Gender, Participation, and Radicalism in African Nationalism: Its Contemporary Significance; 12 Beyond the Nation-State? Democracy in the Regional Economic Context |
|
13 Conclusion: The Future of Democracy in AfricaReferences; About the Book and Editors; Index |
Summary |
After independence many African countries abjured conventional patterns of political representation and democratic participation in the interest of creating a unified state and promoting economic development |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Democracy -- Congresses
|
|
Socialism -- Africa -- Congresses
|
|
Democracy
|
|
Socialism
|
|
Africa
|
Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
|
Form |
Electronic book
|
ISBN |
9780429702440 |
|
0429702442 |
|