Accountable government in Africa : : perspectives from public law and political studies / / Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa, Lia Nijzink.
In the early 1990s, a wave of democratisation swept the African continents, resulting in a flurry of constitution-making and constitutional revision. Two decades later, leading experts in the fields of public law, political sciemnce and democratisation studies assess to what extent accountable gover...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ; : United Nations University Press : :, Cape Town : : UCT Press,, 2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Accountable government in Africa: introduction / Danwood Chirwa & Lia Nijzink
- Post-apartheid accountability: the transformation of a political idea / Andrew Nash
- The politics of constitutional reform in Zambia: from executive dominance to public participation? / Neo Simutanyi
- Judicial independence and the judicialisation of electoral politics in Malawi and Uganda / Siri Gloppen & Fidelis Kanyongolo
- From parliamentary supremacy to judicial review: relations between parliament and the judiciary in Tanzania / Jwani Mwaikusa
- Judicial review of parliamentary actions in South Africa: a nuanced interpretation of the separation of powers / Hugh Corder
- Prosecutions, politics and the law: the way things are / Philip Stenning
- The civilianisation of prosecutorial services in Tanzania / Sifuni Mchome
- Accountable governance and the role of national human rights institutions: the experience of the Malawi human rights commission / Danwood Chirwa & Redson Kapindu
- Balancing independence and accountability: the role of Chapter 9 institutions in South Africa's constitutional democracy / Pierre De Vos
- Accountability compromised: floor crossing in Malawi and South Africa / Lia Nijzink
- Democracy within political parties: the state of affairs in East and southern Africa / Augustine Magolowondo
- Political parties in Malawi: an accountability analysis / Nandini Patel
- Family matters: the interplay between formal and informal incentives for accountability in Mali's local communities / Martin van Vliet
- Understanding local forms of accountability: initial findings from Ghana and Malawi / Diana Cammack
- External accountability meets accountability assistance: the case of legislative strengthening in Africa / Peter Burnell.