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Review: Joseph Patrick Ganahl, Corruption, Good Governance, and the African State: A Critical Analysis of the Political-Economic Foundations of Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa (20...

Kößler, Reinhart - In: Africa Spectrum 50 (2015) 1, pp. 112-114

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Cape Verde: Marketing Good Governance

Baker, Bruce - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 2, pp. 135-147

that has enabled this small island state to punch above its weight and achieve remarkable social, economic and political …

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Review: Robert H. Bates: When Things Fell Apart. State Failure in Late-Century Africa (2008)

Bierschenk, Thomas - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 3, pp. 165-168

Review of the monograph: Robert H. Bates: When Things Fell Apart. State Failure in Late-Century Africa. Cambridge …

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.We must move towards a conference of national reconciliation .. . Professor Boubacar Barry on the Guinean crisis

Barry, Boubacar - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 2, pp. 149-159

considers ECOWAS involvement in the crucial crisis management and major reforms of the state.s structure to accommodate for the …

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Traditional, Democratic, Accountable? Navigating Citizen-Subjection in Rural South Africa

Turner, Robin L. - In: Africa Spectrum 49 (2014) 1, pp. 27-54

the polity as more than 14 million black South Africans remain subject to state-recognized, so-called “traditional …

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“Get to the bridge and I will help you to cross”: Merit, Personal Connections and Money in Access to Nigerian Higher Education

Willott, Chris - In: Africa Spectrum 46 (2011) 1, pp. 85-108

relationship between state and society in contemporary Nigeria. This analysis reveals that in this case the hybrid interpretation … of the neopatrimonial state, which views official and unofficial norms as existing in parallel and suffusing one another …, has more analytical value than its counterpart, the wholesale state privatisation thesis. …

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Review: Review of: Kjetil Tronvoll and Daniel R. Mekonnen, The African Garrison State: Human Rights and Political Development in Eritrea, Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2014, ISBN-10...

Nur, Salih O. - In: Africa Spectrum 50 (2015) 1, pp. 99-103

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The South African Election of 2009

Southall, Roger; Daniel, John - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 2, pp. 111-124

South Africans voted in their country.s fourth democratic general election on 22 April 2009. The African National Congress (ANC) again secured a substantial victory. It might seem that the 2009 Elections proved to be .business as usual.. Yet such a conclusion is unjustified, for events had...

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Voting Behaviour in the 2009 South African Election

Kersting, Norbert - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 2, pp. 125-133

This article analyses voting behaviour in the South African election of 2009 and draws conclusions regarding the significance of party affiliation and issue-based voting in South Africa. It demonstrates the low level of voter registration and voter turnout. In the 2009 election the Independent...

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Who to Blame and What’s to Gain? Reflections on Space, State, and Violence in Kenya and South Africa

Landau, Loren; Misago, Jean - In: Africa Spectrum 44 (2009) 1, pp. 99-110

questions about its causes, the role of the state and the reality of current African societies. This article therefore analyses … Africa was somehow even more dangerous, because it contested state power itself. …

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