ISBN:
0-86543-638-X
,
0-86543-637-1
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 232 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Keywords:
Afrika Uganda
;
Demokratische Republik Kongo
;
Südafrika
;
Nigeria
;
Ghana
;
Botswana
;
Demokratie
;
Zivilgesellschaft
;
Regierung
;
Wahl
;
Parlament
;
Dezentralisation
;
Frauenrecht
;
Gerichtsbarkeit
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Menschenrecht
;
Ethnie, Afrika
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Mandela, Nelson [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
This book is a study of the issues of democracy and democratization in Africa, with emphasis on the roles of civil society and the state in the democratic transition. After clarifying the meaning of democracy as a universal principle of governance and the applicability of the concept to Africa, the book examins the major problem facing the democratic transision on the continent as a whole.The book contains four studies on the role of civil society organizations in the struggle for democracy and the expansion of the political space: one each on the women''s strugge for equality in Botswana and state-civil society relations in Uganda, and two, in French, on ther popular struggle for democracy in the former Zaire.More the half of the contributions to the volume are devoted to a critical assessment of the role the state plays in promoting, undermining, or blocking the democratic transition. There are three case studies on South, Africa, four on Nigeria, and one each on Gana and the Portuguese-speaking countries.The book concludes with two studies on democracy and human rights, with the first looking at the issue in a broad historical and international context, and the second focusing on the gender bias of "ombudsman" institutions in Africa.
Note:
Originally published by the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), c1997. Beiträge teilw. in englischer, teilw. in französischer Sprache.
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