Local Governance Reforms in Africa

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ID20073033
AuthorsNorbert Kersting (0000-0002-1871-6555), Janice Caulfield, R Andrew Nickson, Andrew Nickson (0000-0002-4541-3234), Dele Olowu, Hellmut Wollmann (0000-0003-1678-9715)
Year2009
Pages127-165
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueLocal Governance Reform in Global Perspective (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherVS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/978-3-531-91686-6_4
OpenAlexW1532066847
ISBN9783531916866
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited18

At a time when the democratic governance resurgence of the 90s in developing countries is giving way to the disappointment and disillusionment at the retreat of democracy, it is opportune that the relationship between democratic and local governance is being given serious consideration by the International Association of Political Science globally (Diamond 2008). For quite sometime now, some of us had argued that democracy cannot be consolidated in Africa at the national level if it is not rooted at the local level and also vice versa that democracy at the local level cannot survive if democratic space does not exist for it at the national level. Africa is in a particularly special cultural and political juncture as far as the twin processes of state and nation building are concerned and democratic and effective local governance is critical for the twin processes

Business · Corporate governance · Geography · Political science · Finance · Global and Cross-Cultural Management · Legal Issues in South Africa · Local Government Finance and Decentralization

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