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POLITICS & HUMAN RIGHTS
Accountable Government in Africa
Perspectives from public law and political studies
D CHIRWA & L NIJZINK (EDITORS)
In the early 1990s, a wave of democratisation swept the African continent, resulting in a flurry of constitution-making and constitutional revision. Two decades later it is time to take stock and assess to what extent accountable governance has taken root in Africa. Combining insights from a number of leading experts in the fields of public law, political science and democratisation studies, this edited volume looks at various institutions and mechanisms of accountability, their effectiveness and how the institutions themselves are being held accountable. This book presents new knowledge about legal and political developments in a number of African countries – Ghana, Malawi, Mali, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, with further references to Mozambique, Kenya and Swaziland – bringing the policy goal of developing and deepening democratic governance and accountable government on the continent up to date.
SUITABLE FOR
• Academics
• Students and practitioners in the fields of public law, public
administration, political studies and African studies.
Community of Insecurity
SADC’s struggle for peace and security in southern Africa
L NATHAN
Why have the countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) struggled to establish a viable security regime? Why has SADC been unable to engage in successful peacemaking? And why has it defied the optimistic prognosis in the early 1990s that it would build a security community in Southern Africa? Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements, Nathan examines a number of vital and troubling questions: He argues that the answers to these questions lie in the absence of common values among member states, the weakness of these states and their unwillingness to surrender sovereignty to the regional organisation. Paradoxically, the challenge of building a co-operative security regime lies more at the national level than at the regional level. The author’s perspective is based on a unique mix of insider access, analytical rigour and accessible theory.
SUITABLE FOR
Academics and scholars in the fields of Political Science, International Relations, African Studies, Human Rights law, Security Studies, and the layperson interested in current affairs.
978 1 91989 537 6 978 1 92054 163 7 978 1 92054 127 9 2012
320 PAGES
ZAR R533.00 ZAR R533.00 ZAR R533.00
978 1 77582 075 8 2013
196 PAGES
ZAR R314.00
JUTA EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CATALOGUE | 2018/2019
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