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  • 1
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Pockets of effectiveness and the politics of state-building and development in Africa
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    Keywords: Politik ; Öffentliche Verwaltung ; Bürokratie ; Erfolgsfaktor ; Nationenbildung ; Entwicklung ; Ghana ; Kenia ; Ruanda ; Sambia ; Uganda ; Nationenbildung ; Staat ; Funktion ; Fähigkeit ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Politischer Wandel ; Effektivität ; Beispiel ; Development studies ; Political economy ; Public administration ; Africa ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Why do certain parts of the state in Africa work so effectively despite operating in difficult governance contexts? How do 'pockets of bureaucratic effectiveness' emerge and become sustained over time? And what does this tell us about the prospects for state-building and development in Africa? Repeated economic and social crises have demanded that development thinkers and policy actors have had to engage with the critical role that states play in delivering development. Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa shows that politics is the driving factor that shapes how well state agencies perform their roles. It deploys a new conceptual framework – the power domains approach – to explore the shifting fortunes of key state agencies in five countries – Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia – over the past three decades. Our original research reveals when, how and why political rulers decide to build effective state agencies and enable them to deliver certain forms of economic development – often through forming strategic coalitions with senior bureaucrats and with international support – and also when this support falters and gives way to a politics of survival. Comparative analysis identifies two potential trajectories towards state-building in Africa, each shaped by different configurations of social and political power. The book critiques the role that international development agencies have played in (mis)shaping the state in Africa and suggests a new strategic agenda for building the state capacities required to deliver sustained development at the current juncture. The book closes with critical commentaries from two leading scholars in the field, to help place our work in context and establish the next steps for research and strategy in this increasingly important area of development theory and practice
    Note: English
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  • 2
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    Book
    Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108474887 , 9781108465564
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: xi, 375 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Uniform Title: Afrika seit der Dekolonisation
    Parallel Title: Parallele Sprachausgabe Welz, Martin Afrika seit der Dekolonisation
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 960.32
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    Keywords: Decolonization ; Africa History 1960- ; Africa Politics and government 1960- ; Africa Foreign relations 1960- ; Afrika ; Entkolonialisierung ; Politik ; Geschichte 1960-2020
    Abstract: Home to more than 1.2 billion people, living in 54 recognized states, speaking around 3,000 languages, Africa is a diverse and complex continent made up of states which differ in regard to their colonial history, political system, socio-economic development, economic polices and their experience with crises and conflicts. This introduction and overview of African history and politics since decolonization emphasises throughout, the diversity of the continent. Organised thematically to include chapters on decolonization and its legacies, external influences, economics, political systems, inter-African relations, crises, conflicts and conflict management, and Africa's external relations, Martin Welz strikes a fine balance between the use of contextual information, analysis, case studies and examples with theoretical debates in development, politics and global policy. Accessible to students at all levels, it counters histories which offer reductive explanations of complex issues, and offers new insights into the role African actors have played in influencing international affairs beyond the continent.
    Note: Literaturangaben, Register
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  • 3
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    Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press
    ISBN: 9781452962504
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 306.096
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    Keywords: Decolonization ; Postcolonialism ; Africa Economic conditions 21st century ; Africa Civilization 21st century ; Africa Social conditions 21st century ; Afrika ; Soziale Situation ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Postkolonialismus ; Afrika ; Entkolonialisierung
    Abstract: A vibrant meditation and poetic call for an African utopian philosophy of self-reinvention for the twenty-first century In the recent aftermath of colonialism, civil wars, and the AIDS crisis, a new day finally seems to be shining on the African continent. Africa has once again become a site of creative potential and a vibrant center of economic growth and production. No longer stigmatized by stereotypes or encumbered by the traumas of the past-yet unsure of the future-Africa has other options than simply to follow paths already carved out by the global economy. Instead, the philosopher Felwine Sarr urges the continent to set out on its own renewal and self-discovery-an active utopia that requires a deep historical reflection on the continent's vast mythological universe and ancient traditions, nourishes a cultural reinvention, and embraces green technologies for tackling climate change and demographic challenges.Through a reflection on contemporary African writers, artists, intellectuals, and musicians, Sarr elaborates Africa's unique philosophies and notions of communal value and economy deeply rooted in its ancient traditions and landscape-concepts such as ubuntu, the life force in Dogon culture; the Rwandan imihigo; and the Senegalese teranga. Sarr takes the reader on a philosophical journey that is as much inward as outward, demanding an elevation of the collective consciousness.Along the way, one sees the contours of an africanity, a contemporary Africa united as a continent through the creolization of its cultural traditions. This is Felwine Sarr's Afrotopia.
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9780955507960 , 0955507960 , 9780821418963 , 0821418963
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: IX, 246 S. , 23 cm
    DDC: 305.896
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    Keywords: Obama, Barack ; African diaspora ; Africa ; Foreign relations ; United States ; United States ; Foreign relations ; Africa ; Africa ; Foreign relations ; USA ; Außenpolitik ; Afrika
    Note: Formerly CIP Uk , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9070110458
    Language: Dutch
    Pages: 63 S.
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    Keywords: Politik ; Chiefdoms ; Politische Führung ; Afrika ; Africa Politics and government ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Politische Führung
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  • 6
    ISBN: 0850030757
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: VI, 106 S.
    DDC: 303.4/82
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    Keywords: Nord-Süd-Beziehungen ; Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Westeuropa ; Entwicklungsländer ; Afrika
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  • 7
    ISBN: 0896640175 , 2862940038 , 3794070550 , 2862940046
    Language: Undetermined
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    Keywords: Verwaltung ; Nachschlagewerk ; Wörterbuch ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Verwaltung ; Nachschlagewerk ; Afrika ; Verwaltung ; Wörterbuch
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  • 8
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    London : Oxford Univ. Pr.
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    Language: Undetermined
    Edition: 2. ed.
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    Keywords: Afrika ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Geschichte 1900-1960
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