Manipulating Political Decentralisation: Africa's Inclusive Autocrats

ISBN-13: 9780367372125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 178 str.

Lovise Aalen; Ragnhild L. Muriaas

Opis

 Manipulating Political Decentralisation provides a new conceptual tool to assess representative subnational governments' quality, aiding us in building theories on the consequences of political decentralisation on democratisation.

Spis treści

Series Editors’ Foreword  1. Introduction  1.1 Elections in authoritarian regimes  1.2 Extending elections to the subnational level  1.3 The argument of the book  1.4 Conceptualisation and methods  1.5 Outline of the book  2. Four Strategies of Manipulation  2.1 Advocating for decentralisation after the Cold War  2.2 How decentralisation failed to deliver  2.3 Why some governments decentralise  2.4 Strategies for Manipulating Political Decentralisation  2.5 Possibilities for contestation and participation  2.6 Conclusions  3. The Requirements of Political Decentralisation  3.1 Unpacking the relationship between regime type and decentralisation  3.2 Elections as hallmarks of political decentralisation  3.3 Requirements for representative subnational governments  3.4 The Four Ways of Manipulating Political Decentralisation  3.5 Case selection  3.6 Conclusions  4. Decentralisation through dominance in Ethiopia  4.1 Ethiopia under EPRDF: Decentralisation and autocratisation side by side  4.2 The requirements of representative subnational governments and their challenges  4.3 Manipulating political decentralisation through dominance  4.4 No contestation but mass-participation  4.5 Conclusions  5. Institutional interruption in Malawi  5.1 Regime and stalled political decentralisation  5.2 The requirements of representative subnational governments  5.3 Identifying Manipulation Strategies  5.4 Opportunities for Contestation and Participation  5.5 Conclusion  6. Overwhelming the opposition in Uganda  6.1 The decentralising autocrat  6.2 The requirements of representative subnational governments  6.3 Identifying Manipulation Strategies  6.4 Opportunities for Contestation and Participation  6.5 Conclusion  7. Regionalised opposition in South Africa  7.1 Democracy and the dominant position of ANC  7.2 The requirements for representative subnational governments  7.3 Manipulating Political Decentralisation  7.4 Consequences for contestation and participation  7.5 Conclusion  8. Conclusions  8.1 The five requirements of representative SNGs  8.2 Manipulation strategies and the space for contestation and participation  8.3 Extension to other cases  8.4 The challenges of measuring and comparing local government  8.5 Inclusive autocrats  8.6 The way forward