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Handbook of Research on Sub-National Governance and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 666

Handbook of Research on Sub-National Governance and Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11-30
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Effective governance is a crucial aspect of all modern nations. Through various collaborative efforts and processes, nations can enhance their current governance systems. The Handbook of Research on Sub-National Governance and Development is a pivotal reference source for the latest scholarly material on the intersection between local and national politics, analyzing how this relationship affects nations’ economy and administration. Highlighting theoretical foundations and real-world applications, this book is ideally designed for professionals, academics, students, and practitioners actively involved in the fields of public policy and governance.

The Journey to Transform Local Government
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

The Journey to Transform Local Government

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"The Journey to Transform Local Government is about the challenges and opportunities for municipalities in South Africa as they journey towards delivering on the promise of developmental local government. It deals with various issues on the continuum of local government transformation in South Africa, for example, what does Sustainable Development Goal 11 mean for a municipality? Given that good governance is essential for success, are municipalities implementing anti-corruption policies and are the Municipal Public Accounts Committees functioning? How do we staff municipalities with professionals who see local government as their career of choice? And, given that our ageing infrastructure p...

Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 673

Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa

  • Categories: Law

This collection of essays assesses the efforts of African governments to constitutionalise decentralisation, be it in the form of federalism, local government or traditional authorities. Since the end of the Cold War jurisdictions across Africa have witnessed an ostensible return to multi-party democracy within the paradigm of constitutionalism and the rule of law. Linked to the democratisation process, many countries took steps to decentralize power by departing from the heavily centralized systems inherited from colonial regimes. The centralization of power, typically characterized by the personalization and concentration of power in the hands of leaders and privileged elites in capital ci...

Comparative Federalism and Covid-19
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 427

Comparative Federalism and Covid-19

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-10-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This comprehensive scholarly book on comparative federalism and the Covid-19 pandemic is written by some of the world’s leading federal scholars and national experts. The Covid-19 pandemic presented an unprecedented emergency for countries worldwide, including all those with a federal or hybrid-federal system of government, which account for more than 40 per cent of the world’s population. With case studies from 19 federal countries, this book explores the core elements of federalism that came to the fore in combatting the pandemic: the division of responsibilities (disaster management, health care, social welfare, and education), the need for centralisation, and intergovernmental relati...

Democracy, Elections, and Constitutionalism in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 577

Democracy, Elections, and Constitutionalism in Africa

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This volume examines democracy and elections in Africa, taking stock of the state of constitutional democracy on the continent after the democratic gains of the 1990s and 2000s, focusing on how competitive politics or multiparty democracy can be realized and how, through competition, such politics could lead to better policy and practice outcomes.

The History and Political Transition of Zimbabwe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 469

The History and Political Transition of Zimbabwe

This book is the first to tackle the difficult and complex politics of transition in Zimbabwe, with deep historical analysis. Its focus is on a very problematic political culture that is proving very hard to transcend. At the center of this culture is an unstable but resilient ‘nationalist-military’ alliance crafted during the anti-colonial liberation struggle in the 1970s. Inevitably, violence, misogyny and masculinity are constitutive of the political culture. Economically speaking, the culture is that of a bureaucratic, parasitic, primitive accumulation and corruption, which include invasion and emptying of state coffers by a self-styled ‘Chimurenga aristocracy.’ However, this Chi...

Corruption and Constitutionalism in Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 561

Corruption and Constitutionalism in Africa

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Stellenbosch Handbooks in African Constitutional Law series engages with contemporary issues of constitutionalism in Africa. The first experiments in democratic and constitutional governance in Africa that started after independence were soon overtaken by dictatorships, and arbitrary and repressive rule. The pulling down of the Berlin Wall followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union unleashed new forces of democratization and new hopes for the establishment and entrenchment of constitutional governance and constitutionalism in Africa. This series is designed to identify, analyse, and promote serious discussion of the critical issues that can shape, refine, and deepen the consolidation o...

Developmental Local Government
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Developmental Local Government

This book concerns the role of the state in achieving development. In many developing countries conventional wisdom concluded that development is best achieved through a centralised development strategy. The failure of this centralised development strategy has brought about the emergence of decentralisation to local government as one of the means to turn the tide of underdevelopment. This book presents decentralisation not only as a manifestation of 'good governance', but also as an indispensable tool towards development. The central question, however, is the following: how should the transitional state convert this into constitutional and legal arrangements? The author proposes a model for ...

Local Governance in Multi-Layered Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 485

Local Governance in Multi-Layered Systems

  • Categories: Law

The book provides a comprehensive analysis of local government in federations. It fills the gap in current legal research and positions local government in federal studies through the lenses of comparative law, adopting a more nuanced approach to local government. The book considers the shortcomings between the black-letter constitution and its operational rules. Whether (and how) the regime of local government is implemented is more relevant than its formal-but-ineffective recognition. The comparative survey discloses the variety local institutions take in different federal contexts. Divided into three parts, the book comprises chapters investigating local government in systems that, to var...

Local Government Reform in Zimbabwe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 151

Local Government Reform in Zimbabwe

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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