State recognition and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa :
[Book]
a new dawn for traditional authorities? /
edited by Lars Buur and Helene Maria Kyed.
1st ed.
New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
xiii, 241 pages ;
22 cm.
Palgrave studies in governance, security, and development
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This book explores the complex, often counter-balancing consequences of the involvement of traditional authority in the wave of democratization and liberal-style state-building that has rolled over Sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade. It scrutinizes how, in practice, traditional leaders are being drawn into governance in Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia, Malawi, Burkina Faso, and the Somali region of Ethiopia. The authors relate these developments to state governance in the declining democracy of Zimbabwe and the emerging state of Northern Somalia."--Jacket.
State recognition and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Central-local government relations-- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Chiefdoms-- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Democratization-- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Tribal government-- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
86.53 law of provincial and local government.
Burkina Faso.
Central-local government relations.
Chiefdoms.
Democratisering.
Democratization.
Demokratisierung
Ethiopia.
governance.
Häuptling
Lokaal bestuur.
Malawi.
Mozambique.
Namibia.
Politics and government
Somalia.
State.
Subsaharan Africa.
traditional rulers.
Tribal government.
Tribale groepen.
Zambia.
Zimbabwe.
Africa, Sub-Saharan, Politics and government, 1960-