Dennis Austin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3611802 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dennis Austin |
| NOMBRES | Dennis |
| APELLIDO | Austin |
| FIRMA | AUSTIN D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Manchester |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 117 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1960 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Politicians and Soldiers in Ghana 1966-1972
Probleme der Demokratie Heute
One with Nineveh and Tyre
The intimacy of the early Commonwealth was dissipated by its rapid enlargement following decolonization. Much has been made of the association's commitment to democracy and good governance. But the internal conditions of many member states stand in contrast to such well intentioned phrases. Nowhere is this more true than in Africa where control under colonial rule has frequently given way to repression under African leaders. This raises questions…
Terrorism, Sri Lanka and a letter from President Kumaratunga
Sri Lanka's troubled recent history has given its president authority to speak on issues related to terrorism. Over 20 years of ethnic and religious conflict have left their mark, not least on President Kumaratunga herself. She has endured the assassination of her father and husband, and lost the sight in her right eye in an attack by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber. In the light of President Kumaratunga's letter to the Times after 11th September in…
Good Governance
Inter-dependence draws nations together in trade, economics, climate change, refugees, and tourism. Democracy is seen as the only game in town, along with competitive markets within and between nation states. Western governments' reasoning may seem sensible: a free politics needs a free and open economy, but for whose benefit? In the West, provision exists against extreme poverty, institutions of a civic society are strongly established, governme…
The Commonwealth 2001‐2101
Future development of the Commonwealth can take a number of differing paths. The author takes the opportunity of the High Level Review Group to consider the possibilities and their consequences. A panel of special advisors specializing in a range of practical topics (omitting issues related to political or moral ethics) could be appointed by the Commonwealth Secretariat to offer guidance to the High Level Review Group
Contested Islands
In memoriam
At the height of influence the British Empire contained the seeds not only of its power but its destruction. Within a generation of the height of its powers it dissolved into separate states while the development of the European Union cast a shadow over the autonomy of Great Britain itself. The British Empire is now as extinct as Rome's, empire replaced by Commonwealth and control by reconciliation. Its memorial is to have governed a large part o…
Malta today asks ‐ under which king, Bezonian
Malta endured centuries of subjugation before achieving independence in 1964 but is now seeking membership of the European Union. After effectively rejecting a form of Parliamentary integration with Britain in the 1950s, the Malta of the 1970s developed its own brand of non‐aligned independence and has latterly secured a more broadly‐based and viable economy, although heavily dependent on the whims of international tourism. But after only three d…
Sri Lanka
India—Once more to the polls
Reflections on African politics
Journal Article Reflections on African politics: Prospero, Ariel and Caliban Get access Dennis Austin Dennis Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 2, April 1993, Pages 203–221, https://doi.org/10.2307/2621590 Published: 01 April 1993
The Bharatiya Janata Party of India
Observers of The Indian Political Scene Have Been puzzled by the performance and prospects of the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest opposition group in the central legislature in New Delhi, and forms the government in four northern states, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. The elements of opposition and government have taken new shape; and the rise of the BJP, say critics, constitutes a challenge not simply to…
The hand, the lotus and the wheel
India's ninth general election
Revisiting Delhi
Birds of a feather
A South African policy
Journal Article A South African policy: six precepts in search of a diplomacy? Get access Dennis Austin Dennis Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 62, Issue 3, summer 1986, Pages 391–403, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617883 Published: 01 July 1986
South Africa 1984
The Ghana armed forces and Ghanaian society
(1985). The Ghana armed forces and Ghanaian society. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 90-101
What happened to the colonial state
The Trinitarians
IN TOLSTOY'S STORY OF THE THREE HERMITS, A BISHOP (TRAvelling by ship) passes by chance the island on which they live and asks to be set ashore. He discovers that they know only the simple prayer: ‘Three in One, One in Three, Praise be His Name’. ‘It is not sufficient,’ he says, and teaches them the catechism. After some difficulty, they memorize the words, whereupon he returns to his ship. Later, in the moonlight, he sees the three old men runni…
Politics in Africa
Goodbye to Berlin
(1984). Goodbye to Berlin?: The partition of Africa reconsidered. The Round Table: Vol. 73, No. 291, pp. 260-273
Ivory Towers? Universities in Sri Lanka
Politics in Ghana, 1946-1960
Politicians and Soldiers in Ghana 1966-1972
Elections in an African Rural Area
Opening ParagraphWhat happens when an African tribal community is suddenly brought within a parliamentary system based on adult suffrage? On the surface, the process is a familiar one: an election date is announced, parties begin to be active, candidates are chosen, a government information van goes round to explain the procedure of voting, polling day arrives, and the member for X constituency is declared returned. The electorate has made its ch…
The Working Committee of the United Gold Coast Convention
When I was in Ghana last year, Dr Danquah very kindly allowed me to read and make notes on an early Minute Book belonging to the Working Committee of the United Gold Coast Convention. I thought it was very interesting, for it covered the years 1947–51 when discontent with colonial rule came to a head, and produced first the U.G.C.C.—as it is easier to call it—and then its radical offspring, the Convention People's Party. The Minute Book was caref…
Universities and the academic gold standard in Nigeria
Ghana Observed
Both before and after its independence in I957, Ghana exerted an influence out of all proportion to its size and population. Not only was it the first subSaharan state to achieve independence, but its first President was a flamboyant and outspoken activist who attempted to implement controversial policies both within Ghana and on the African and world stages. Now, two decades later, Ghana is still trying to recover from the excesses of those year…
The Uncertain Frontier
The unsatisfactory nature of the frontiers between the independent African states is widely stressed, and provides an additional argument for those who would like to see a regrouping of the African scene in terms of larger political units. This short article discusses the boundary between Ghana and Togo-a classic example (it might be thought) of colonial division calling for early revision along rational lines. It was demarcated between Britain a…
Voting in an African Town
Contested Islands
Britain, Europe—And some Malta
Good Governance
Inter-dependence draws nations together in trade, economics, climate change, refugees, and tourism. Democracy is seen as the only game in town, along with competitive markets within and between nation states. Western governments' reasoning may seem sensible: a free politics needs a free and open economy, but for whose benefit? In the West, provision exists against extreme poverty, institutions of a civic society are strongly established, governme…
The Bharatiya Janata Party of India
Observers of The Indian Political Scene Have Been puzzled by the performance and prospects of the Bharatiya Janata Party. It is the largest opposition group in the central legislature in New Delhi, and forms the government in four northern states, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. The elements of opposition and government have taken new shape; and the rise of the BJP, say critics, constitutes a challenge not simply to…
The hand, the lotus and the wheel
India's ninth general election
A South African policy
Journal Article A South African policy: six precepts in search of a diplomacy? Get access Dennis Austin Dennis Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 62, Issue 3, summer 1986, Pages 391–403, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617883 Published: 01 July 1986
Salva sit Universitas Nostra
I base this enquiry on the simple proposition that the government of a university ought to be collegiate and that authority within an academic community should be diffuse.Now it is clear – it became very clear at Manchester in 1981–82 – that the structure of control in most British universities is no longer capable of looking after its members in a rational, intelligent manner. Instead of dispersal there is centralization, and in place of collegi…
Opposition in Ghana
How simple the Ghana picture now seems! First, the opposition of nationalist demands to colonial rule; later, the opposition of local movements to the national government, then the internal opposition of sectional groups within the single party until the military intervened to turn everything awry. The story has a familiar ring to it. Anti-colonialism, one can argue, was mistaken for nationalism; but as soon as it became clear that the British we…
The Ghana coup d'Etat
Britain and South Africa
West Africa and the Commonwealth
The Educated African
Journal Article The Educated African: A Country-by-Country Survey of Educational Development in Africa Get access The Educated African: A Country-by-Country Survey of Educational Development in Africa. Ed. by Helen Kitchen. Compiled by Ruth Sloan Associates. Preface by Ruth C. Sloan. London, Melbourne, Toronto, Ibadan: Heinemann. 1962. 542 pp. Illus. Maps. Tables. 63s. Dennis Austin Dennis Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
The New Ghana
Mr. Dennis Austin, of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, gave the address that follows at a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal Common-wealth Society on November 5, 1959. Mr. David Williams, editor of “West Africa‘, ’, took the chair
Voting in an African Town
The New Ghana
Mr. Dennis Austin, of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, gave the address that follows at a joint meeting of the Royal African Society and the Royal Common-wealth Society on November 5, 1959. Mr. David Williams, editor of “West Africa‘, ’, took the chair
The Working Committee of the United Gold Coast Convention
When I was in Ghana last year, Dr Danquah very kindly allowed me to read and make notes on an early Minute Book belonging to the Working Committee of the United Gold Coast Convention. I thought it was very interesting, for it covered the years 1947–51 when discontent with colonial rule came to a head, and produced first the U.G.C.C.—as it is easier to call it—and then its radical offspring, the Convention People's Party. The Minute Book was caref…
Elections in an African Rural Area
Opening ParagraphWhat happens when an African tribal community is suddenly brought within a parliamentary system based on adult suffrage? On the surface, the process is a familiar one: an election date is announced, parties begin to be active, candidates are chosen, a government information van goes round to explain the procedure of voting, polling day arrives, and the member for X constituency is declared returned. The electorate has made its ch…
Shorter notices
DISTANCE LOOKS OUR WAY: The Effects of Remoteness on New Zealand. Edited by Keith Sinclair. London, Oxford University Press, 1962; University of Auckland, 1961. 120 pp. I2s.6d. PAPUA AND NEW GUINEA: A Contemporary Survey. By Brian Essai. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1961. xviii + 255 pp. 37s.6d. OCCASIONAL PAPER NO. I. Salisbury, Department of Economics, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1961. 75 pp. GROWTH AND CHANGE IN A SHON…
The Political Scene in Ghana
West Africa and the Commonwealth
The Educated African
Journal Article The Educated African: A Country-by-Country Survey of Educational Development in Africa Get access The Educated African: A Country-by-Country Survey of Educational Development in Africa. Ed. by Helen Kitchen. Compiled by Ruth Sloan Associates. Preface by Ruth C. Sloan. London, Melbourne, Toronto, Ibadan: Heinemann. 1962. 542 pp. Illus. Maps. Tables. 63s. Dennis Austin Dennis Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
The Uncertain Frontier
The unsatisfactory nature of the frontiers between the independent African states is widely stressed, and provides an additional argument for those who would like to see a regrouping of the African scene in terms of larger political units. This short article discusses the boundary between Ghana and Togo-a classic example (it might be thought) of colonial division calling for early revision along rational lines. It was demarcated between Britain a…
Africa in World Politics
Africa in World Politics Africa in World Politics. By Vernon McKay. New York, Evanston: Harper & Row. 1963. 468 pp. Tables. Bibliog. Index. $6.75. Dennis Austin Dennis Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 1964, Pages 145–146, https://doi.org/10.2307/2609761 Published: 01 January 1964
African One-Party States
Journal Article African One-Party States Get access African One-Party States. Ed. by Gwendolen M. Carter. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 1962. 501 pp. Map. Diagram. Tables. Bibliogs. Index. $7.25. Dennis Austin Dennis Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 40, Issue 2, April 1964, Pages 335–336, https://doi.org/10.2307/2609957 Published: 01 April 1964
Politics in Ghana. 1946-1960
The Ghana coup d'Etat
Why not Surrender to Mr. Smith
Britain and South Africa
A monumental work
African Commonwealth loyalists
Opposition in Ghana
How simple the Ghana picture now seems! First, the opposition of nationalist demands to colonial rule; later, the opposition of local movements to the national government, then the internal opposition of sectional groups within the single party until the military intervened to turn everything awry. The story has a familiar ring to it. Anti-colonialism, one can argue, was mistaken for nationalism; but as soon as it became clear that the British we…
The British national debate
White power
White power
Politics in Ghana, 1946-1960
Britain, Europe—And some Malta
Progress in Ghana
Re-reading Dr. Kofi Busia's book on Africa in Search of Democracy,1 and revisiting Ghana recently, was a sobering experience. Certainly I found it so. How easy it is to be in search of good government: how hard it is to achieve it! Everything in the book is so persuasive, including a great deal of criticism of many African governments for failing to live up to the ideals their leaders proclaimed. One wondered even then, in 1967, how Kofi the part…
Return to Ghana
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