This book offers an authoritative study of election observation in Africa and its relation with democratization processes. Election observation is a hotly debated issue in contemporary international relations and in political science. It is seen by donor- countries and the international community as a means to enhance democratization, but has been controversial with regard to the mandates' of the observers, the cases of its misappropriation by authoritarian governments and its masking of other donor-country interests. The book addresses fundamental issues of elections and democrat-ization in...
This book offers an authoritative study of election observation in Africa and its relation with democratization processes. Election observation is a h...
There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives. In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human existence, and is very probably a constituting element of human society. And yet violent action - warfare, penalties, insults, feuding, assault, murder, rape, suicide, sports - remains in all its complexity one of the least understood fields of human social life.
The book's contributors identify the symbolic and ritualized aspects of violence, and suggest ways of 'reading' violence as it occurs in the world, whether as violent duelling and age-group...
There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives. In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human existence, and...
There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives. In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human existence, and is very probably a constituting element of human society. And yet violent action - warfare, penalties, insults, feuding, assault, murder, rape, suicide, sports - remains in all its complexity one of the least understood fields of human social life.
The book's contributors identify the symbolic and ritualized aspects of violence, and suggest ways of 'reading' violence as it occurs in the world, whether as violent duelling and age-group...
There are good reasons to look at violence from new perspectives. In its endless manifestations violence is part and parcel of human existence, and...
This volume contains original studies on civic action and socio-political behavior in contemporary Africa, ranging from young entrepreneurship in traditional medicine and confidence trickster practices to (in)formal labor relations and the problems of democratization and electoral authoritarianism. The book thus connects to themes that are predominant in the work of Dr. Piet Konings, a sociologist of development and Africanist who had a distinguished research career at the African Studies Center in Leiden and made major contributions to Ghana Studies and Cameroon Studies. The chapters address...
This volume contains original studies on civic action and socio-political behavior in contemporary Africa, ranging from young entrepreneurship in trad...
This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and ethnic federalism in 1991. Decentralization, attempted democratization via ethno-national representation, and partial economic liberalization have reconfigured Ethiopian society and state in the past two decades. Yet, as the contributors to this volume demonstrate, democracy in Ethiopia has not changed the authority structures and the culture of centralist decision-making of the past. The political system is tightly engineered and controlled from...
This book takes stock of political reform in Ethiopia and the transformation of Ethiopian society since the adoption of multi-party politics and et...
Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and role in times of contested global inequalities. Case studies include the Polish gentry, the white former colonial elite of Mauritius, professional elites, and transnational (financial) elites.
Offering insightful anthropological-historical contributions to the understanding of elites worldwide, this book helps us grasp their ways of life and...
This book discusses the problems and challenges of environmental-ecological conditions in Africa, amidst the current craze of economic growth and `development'.
This book discusses the problems and challenges of environmental-ecological conditions in Africa, amidst the current craze of economic growth and `dev...
