Governing Africa’s Changing Societies: Dynamics of ReformEllen M. Lust and Stephen N. Ndegwa, editors
|ISBN: 978-1-58826-834-1 |
|2012/243 pages/LC: 2011053494 |
What is the cumulative impact of the immense social, economic, and political changes that Africa has undergone in recent decades? What opportunities do those changes present to improve the lives of the continent's citizens?
Countering the prevailing mood of pessimism in the face of disappointed expectations, the authors of Governing Africa's Changing Societies demonstrate the significance of even incomplete reforms in the areas of competitive elections and democratization, gender relations, property rights, the public sector, and privatization, among others. In the aggregate, their work reveals how seemingly small or sluggish changes are accumulating to fundamentally, and positively, transform Africa's governance environment.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ellen M. Lust is professor of political science at Yale University. Her publications include Structuring Conflict in the Arab World, the coedited Political Participation in the Middle East, and the edited textbook The Middle East. Stephen N. Ndegwa is adviser on fragile and conflict-affected situations at the World Bank. He is author of The Two Faces of Civil Society: NGOs and Politics in Africa and coeditor of A Decade of Democracy in Africa.
- The Challenges of Governance in Africa’s Changing Societies—the Editors.
- The Democracy-Governance Connection—M. Bratton.
- Democracy and Economic Performance—P. Lewis.
- Contested Land Rights in Rural Africa—C. Boone.
- Property Rights: Preferences and Reform—A.K. Onoma.
- Women’s Rights and Family Law Reform in Francophone Africa—S.D. Wing.
- Religion, Democracy, and Education Reform in the Sahel—L.A. Villalón.
- Rethinking the Dynamics of Reform in Africa—the Editors.