State recognition and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa : a new dawn for traditional authorities?

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The work State recognition and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa : a new dawn for traditional authorities? represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

State recognition and democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa : a new dawn for traditional authorities?

Title remainder

a new dawn for traditional authorities?

Statement of responsibility

edited by Lars Buur and Helene Maria Kyed

Contributor

• Buur, Lars
• Kyed, Helene Maria

Subject

• Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960-
• Afrika
• Central-local government relations -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Chiefdoms -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Democratization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
• Since 1960
• Tribal government -- Africa, Sub-Saharan

Language

eng

Summary

Being critical and empirically grounded, the 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

Member of

• Online access with purchase: Springer
• Palgrave studies in governance, security, and development

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

320.967

Index

index present

LC call number

JQ1879.A15

LC item number

S845 2007eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Palgrave studies in governance, security, and development