Richard C Crook
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1582933 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard C Crook |
| NOMBRES | Richard C |
| APELLIDO | Crook |
| FIRMA | CROOK R C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Glasgow |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 106 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Decolonization, the Colonial State, and Chieftaincy in the Gold Coast
This chapter suggests that reinterpretation of the relation-ship between the colonial state and chieftaincy in the Gold Coast, looking in particular at the interaction between land law, class formation and the structure of indirect rule. The decolonization decision, then, is pushed forward, with very important consequences for our understanding of the imperial or metropolitan dimension of policy-making. The assumption that the chieftaincy, for in…
Popular Concepts of Justice and Hybrid Judicial Institutions in Ghana
The provision of effective, legitimate and accessible justice is one of the most fundamental public goods expected from a well?governed state. In this article, we compare the legitimacy of three state or state?supported Ghanaian dispute settlement institutions: the magistrate's courts, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the land dispute committees of the neo?traditional Customary Land Secretariats (CLSs). It was…
Conclusion
This article draws together the main strands of argument being developed by the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP), as reflected in this IDS Bulletin. The central question is what kinds of governance arrangements work better to support the provision of the public goods that are essential to sustained and inclusive development in Africa. Evidence at local, sectoral and national levels is pointing to the overall conclusion that what works i…
Rethinking civil service reform in Africa
After many decades of reform efforts and capacity-building, the delivery of public services in most sub-Saharan African states remains in crisis. Yet explanations of this failure which focus on failure of implementation, continued overstaffing, lack of political will or the inherent problems of ‘neo-patrimonialism’ are unconvincing. In fact the key problems of African public services remain those of understaffing and lack of organisational commit…
Access to Justice and Land Disputes in Ghana’s State Courts
The majority of land in Ghana is still held under a diversity of customary tenures, embedded in family, community and chiefly institutions; but land disputes may be adjudicated in a variety of institutions: informal arbitrations and family tribunals, chiefs' courts, quasi-legal state agencies and the formal state courts. Current debates on how to protect the land rights of the majority of customary land holders revolve around the respective merit…
Decentralisation and poverty reduction in Africa
Decentralisation advocates argue that decentralised governments are more responsive to the needs of the poor than central governments and thus are more likely to conceive and implement pro‐poor policies. Recent evidence from a selected group of sub‐Saharan African countries is reviewed in a comparative framework that highlights factors associated with success in poverty reduction. It is argued that the degree of responsiveness to the poor and the…
Cocoa Booms, the Legalisation of Land Relations and Politics in Cote D'Ivoire and Ghana
Summaries How does ‘law as practice’ affect the economic and political behaviour of ordinary people? It is argued that the degree of legalisation of land relations and the degree of competition between regulatory orders in two cocoa?exporting countries of West Africa had important effects on the responses of peasant farmers to economic and social change. In spite of similar experiences of mass migration and land commercialisation during the perio…
No‐party’ politics and local democracy in Africa
Ghana's decentralised form of administration run by elected District Assemblies was created in 1989 by Jerry Rawlings' military government. As in Uganda under Museveni's National Resistance Council regime, it was inspired by populist theories of participatory, community‐led democracy which idealised the consensual character of 'traditional' village life and rejected the relevance of political parties. The Assemblies remain by law 'no‐party' insti…
Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa
This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability between people, politicians and bureaucrats; and, most importantly, on whether governmental performance actually improved in comparison with previous forms …
Democratic decentralisation and institutional performance
Politics, the Cocoa Crisis, and Administration in Côte d'Ivoire
It is, no doubt, a journalistic cliché to assert that Côte d'Ivoire is 'in crisis'. It is both undeniable and obvious that the world's largest cocoa producer, dependent for the majority of its foreign-exchange earnings and for the livelihood of the majority of its working population on the export of cocoa and coffee, is severely affected by the collapse in commodity prices which has occurred since 1980. With the exception of the false boomlet of …
Patrimonialism, Administrative Effectiveness and Economic Development in Côte d'Ivoire
Journal Article PATRIMONIALISM, ADMINISTRATIVE EFFECTIVENESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CÔTE D'IVOIRE Get access RICHARD C. CROOK RICHARD C. CROOK The author is Lecturer in Politics at Glasgow University. Earlier versions of this article were first presented at the Plymouth Conference of the Political Studies Association, and the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, in April 1988. I am grateful to all those who on those occasions and subseq…
State Capacity and Economic Development
Cte d'Ivoire is said to have three outstanding characteristics -political stability, economic success and the closest relations with France of any of the Francophone ex-colonies. Political stability is not as unusual in Africa as is commonly supposed, but few countries have combined this with a development strategy based on agricultural exports and cooperation with foreign capital which has produced such rapid growth rates in GDP, GNP per capita …
Legitimacy, Authority and the Transfer of Power in Ghana
The problems of authority and legitimacy experienced by post-colonial states are often explained in terms of a ‘colonial legacy’. The validity of this hypothesis is examined, in the case of Ghana, by analysing changes in the kinds of legitimacy claimed by the state from the colonial period through decolonization to independence. It is concluded that, whilst the most enduring legacy of colonialism was the attempt to found legitimacy in particulari…
Decolonization, the Colonial State, and Chieftaincy in the Gold Coast
Journal Article DECOLONIZATION, THE COLONIAL STATE, AND CHIEFTAINCY IN THE GOLD COAST Get access RICHARD C. CROOK RICHARD C. CROOK The author is Lecturer in Politics at Glasgow University. This article began life as a seminar paper presented at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham in 1984. It was subsequently presented at the York Conference of the ASAUK in September 1984, and discussed at the Institute of Commonwealth Stu…
Patrimonialism, Administrative Effectiveness and Economic Development in Côte d'Ivoire
Journal Article PATRIMONIALISM, ADMINISTRATIVE EFFECTIVENESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CÔTE D'IVOIRE Get access RICHARD C. CROOK RICHARD C. CROOK The author is Lecturer in Politics at Glasgow University. Earlier versions of this article were first presented at the Plymouth Conference of the Political Studies Association, and the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, in April 1988. I am grateful to all those who on those occasions and subseq…
Rethinking civil service reform in Africa
After many decades of reform efforts and capacity-building, the delivery of public services in most sub-Saharan African states remains in crisis. Yet explanations of this failure which focus on failure of implementation, continued overstaffing, lack of political will or the inherent problems of ‘neo-patrimonialism’ are unconvincing. In fact the key problems of African public services remain those of understaffing and lack of organisational commit…
Decolonization, the Colonial State, and Chieftaincy in the Gold Coast
Journal Article DECOLONIZATION, THE COLONIAL STATE, AND CHIEFTAINCY IN THE GOLD COAST Get access RICHARD C. CROOK RICHARD C. CROOK The author is Lecturer in Politics at Glasgow University. This article began life as a seminar paper presented at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham in 1984. It was subsequently presented at the York Conference of the ASAUK in September 1984, and discussed at the Institute of Commonwealth Stu…
No‐party’ politics and local democracy in Africa
Ghana's decentralised form of administration run by elected District Assemblies was created in 1989 by Jerry Rawlings' military government. As in Uganda under Museveni's National Resistance Council regime, it was inspired by populist theories of participatory, community‐led democracy which idealised the consensual character of 'traditional' village life and rejected the relevance of political parties. The Assemblies remain by law 'no‐party' insti…
Politics, the Cocoa Crisis, and Administration in Côte d'Ivoire
It is, no doubt, a journalistic cliché to assert that Côte d'Ivoire is 'in crisis'. It is both undeniable and obvious that the world's largest cocoa producer, dependent for the majority of its foreign-exchange earnings and for the livelihood of the majority of its working population on the export of cocoa and coffee, is severely affected by the collapse in commodity prices which has occurred since 1980. With the exception of the false boomlet of …
Legitimacy, Authority and the Transfer of Power in Ghana
The problems of authority and legitimacy experienced by post-colonial states are often explained in terms of a ‘colonial legacy’. The validity of this hypothesis is examined, in the case of Ghana, by analysing changes in the kinds of legitimacy claimed by the state from the colonial period through decolonization to independence. It is concluded that, whilst the most enduring legacy of colonialism was the attempt to found legitimacy in particulari…
Cocoa Booms, the Legalisation of Land Relations and Politics in Cote D'Ivoire and Ghana
Summaries How does ‘law as practice’ affect the economic and political behaviour of ordinary people? It is argued that the degree of legalisation of land relations and the degree of competition between regulatory orders in two cocoa?exporting countries of West Africa had important effects on the responses of peasant farmers to economic and social change. In spite of similar experiences of mass migration and land commercialisation during the perio…
Democratic decentralisation and institutional performance
Popular Concepts of Justice and Hybrid Judicial Institutions in Ghana
The provision of effective, legitimate and accessible justice is one of the most fundamental public goods expected from a well?governed state. In this article, we compare the legitimacy of three state or state?supported Ghanaian dispute settlement institutions: the magistrate's courts, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the land dispute committees of the neo?traditional Customary Land Secretariats (CLSs). It was…
Conclusion
This article draws together the main strands of argument being developed by the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP), as reflected in this IDS Bulletin. The central question is what kinds of governance arrangements work better to support the provision of the public goods that are essential to sustained and inclusive development in Africa. Evidence at local, sectoral and national levels is pointing to the overall conclusion that what works i…
State Capacity and Economic Development
Cte d'Ivoire is said to have three outstanding characteristics -political stability, economic success and the closest relations with France of any of the Francophone ex-colonies. Political stability is not as unusual in Africa as is commonly supposed, but few countries have combined this with a development strategy based on agricultural exports and cooperation with foreign capital which has produced such rapid growth rates in GDP, GNP per capita …
Decolonization, the Colonial State, and Chieftaincy in the Gold Coast
Journal Article DECOLONIZATION, THE COLONIAL STATE, AND CHIEFTAINCY IN THE GOLD COAST Get access RICHARD C. CROOK RICHARD C. CROOK The author is Lecturer in Politics at Glasgow University. This article began life as a seminar paper presented at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham in 1984. It was subsequently presented at the York Conference of the ASAUK in September 1984, and discussed at the Institute of Commonwealth Stu…
Legitimacy, Authority and the Transfer of Power in Ghana
The problems of authority and legitimacy experienced by post-colonial states are often explained in terms of a ‘colonial legacy’. The validity of this hypothesis is examined, in the case of Ghana, by analysing changes in the kinds of legitimacy claimed by the state from the colonial period through decolonization to independence. It is concluded that, whilst the most enduring legacy of colonialism was the attempt to found legitimacy in particulari…
State Capacity and Economic Development
Cte d'Ivoire is said to have three outstanding characteristics -political stability, economic success and the closest relations with France of any of the Francophone ex-colonies. Political stability is not as unusual in Africa as is commonly supposed, but few countries have combined this with a development strategy based on agricultural exports and cooperation with foreign capital which has produced such rapid growth rates in GDP, GNP per capita …
Patrimonialism, Administrative Effectiveness and Economic Development in Côte d'Ivoire
Journal Article PATRIMONIALISM, ADMINISTRATIVE EFFECTIVENESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN CÔTE D'IVOIRE Get access RICHARD C. CROOK RICHARD C. CROOK The author is Lecturer in Politics at Glasgow University. Earlier versions of this article were first presented at the Plymouth Conference of the Political Studies Association, and the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, in April 1988. I am grateful to all those who on those occasions and subseq…
Politics, the Cocoa Crisis, and Administration in Côte d'Ivoire
It is, no doubt, a journalistic cliché to assert that Côte d'Ivoire is 'in crisis'. It is both undeniable and obvious that the world's largest cocoa producer, dependent for the majority of its foreign-exchange earnings and for the livelihood of the majority of its working population on the export of cocoa and coffee, is severely affected by the collapse in commodity prices which has occurred since 1980. With the exception of the false boomlet of …
Democratic decentralisation and institutional performance
Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa
This book is an in-depth empirical study of four Asian and African attempts to create democratic, decentralised local governments in the late 1980s and 1990s. The case studies of Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Karnataka (India) and Bangladesh focus upon the enhancement of participation; accountability between people, politicians and bureaucrats; and, most importantly, on whether governmental performance actually improved in comparison with previous forms …
No‐party’ politics and local democracy in Africa
Ghana's decentralised form of administration run by elected District Assemblies was created in 1989 by Jerry Rawlings' military government. As in Uganda under Museveni's National Resistance Council regime, it was inspired by populist theories of participatory, community‐led democracy which idealised the consensual character of 'traditional' village life and rejected the relevance of political parties. The Assemblies remain by law 'no‐party' insti…
Cocoa Booms, the Legalisation of Land Relations and Politics in Cote D'Ivoire and Ghana
Summaries How does ‘law as practice’ affect the economic and political behaviour of ordinary people? It is argued that the degree of legalisation of land relations and the degree of competition between regulatory orders in two cocoa?exporting countries of West Africa had important effects on the responses of peasant farmers to economic and social change. In spite of similar experiences of mass migration and land commercialisation during the perio…
Decentralisation and poverty reduction in Africa
Decentralisation advocates argue that decentralised governments are more responsive to the needs of the poor than central governments and thus are more likely to conceive and implement pro‐poor policies. Recent evidence from a selected group of sub‐Saharan African countries is reviewed in a comparative framework that highlights factors associated with success in poverty reduction. It is argued that the degree of responsiveness to the poor and the…
Access to Justice and Land Disputes in Ghana’s State Courts
The majority of land in Ghana is still held under a diversity of customary tenures, embedded in family, community and chiefly institutions; but land disputes may be adjudicated in a variety of institutions: informal arbitrations and family tribunals, chiefs' courts, quasi-legal state agencies and the formal state courts. Current debates on how to protect the land rights of the majority of customary land holders revolve around the respective merit…
Rethinking civil service reform in Africa
After many decades of reform efforts and capacity-building, the delivery of public services in most sub-Saharan African states remains in crisis. Yet explanations of this failure which focus on failure of implementation, continued overstaffing, lack of political will or the inherent problems of ‘neo-patrimonialism’ are unconvincing. In fact the key problems of African public services remain those of understaffing and lack of organisational commit…
Popular Concepts of Justice and Hybrid Judicial Institutions in Ghana
The provision of effective, legitimate and accessible justice is one of the most fundamental public goods expected from a well?governed state. In this article, we compare the legitimacy of three state or state?supported Ghanaian dispute settlement institutions: the magistrate's courts, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the land dispute committees of the neo?traditional Customary Land Secretariats (CLSs). It was…
Conclusion
This article draws together the main strands of argument being developed by the Africa Power and Politics Programme (APPP), as reflected in this IDS Bulletin. The central question is what kinds of governance arrangements work better to support the provision of the public goods that are essential to sustained and inclusive development in Africa. Evidence at local, sectoral and national levels is pointing to the overall conclusion that what works i…
Decolonization, the Colonial State, and Chieftaincy in the Gold Coast
This chapter suggests that reinterpretation of the relation-ship between the colonial state and chieftaincy in the Gold Coast, looking in particular at the interaction between land law, class formation and the structure of indirect rule. The decolonization decision, then, is pushed forward, with very important consequences for our understanding of the imperial or metropolitan dimension of policy-making. The assumption that the chieftaincy, for in…
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