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Author: Jim Ocitti
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume refutes the claim that the present no-party political system in Uganda is more democratic than past systems, and examines the reasons why democracy has failed to take root there.
Author: Bruce Gilley
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009-03-03
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780231511254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPopular perceptions of a state's legitimacy are inextricably bound to its ability to rule. Vast military and material reserves cannot counter the power of a citizen's belief, and the more widespread the crisis of a state's legitimacy, the greater the threat to its stability. Even such established democracies as France and India are losing their moral claims over society, while such highly illiberal states as China and Iran enjoy strong showings of public support. Through a remarkable fusion of empirical research and theory, Bruce Gilley makes clear the link between political consent and political rule. Fixing a definition of legitimacy that is both general and particular, he is able to study the role of legitimacy as it has been maintained and lost in a diverse selection of societies. He begins by detailing the origins of state legitimacy and the methods governments have used to wield it best. He then considers the habits of less successful states, exploring how the process works across different styles of government. Gilley's unique approach merges a broad study of legitimacy and performance in seventy-two states with a detailed empirical analysis of the mechanisms of legitimation. The results are tested on a case study of Uganda, a country that, after 1986, began to recover from decades of civil war. Considering a range of explanations of other domestic and international phenomena as well, Gilley ultimately argues that, because of its evident real-world importance, legitimacy should occupy a central place in political analysis.
Author: Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-01-05
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1135189722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book uses a multi-method approach to examine the impact of truth commissions on subsequent human rights protection and democratic practice and features cross-national case studies on South Africa, El Salvador, Chile and Uganda.
Author: KEVIN SHILLINGTON.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 1908
ISBN-13: 1135456704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ben Jones
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2008-12-18
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0748636676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this innovative study, Ben Jones argues that scholars too often assume that the state is the most important force behind change in local political communities in Africa. Studies look to the state, and to the impact of government reforms, as ways of understanding processes of development and change. Using the example of Uganda, regarded as one of Africa's few "e;success stories"e;, Jones chronicles the insignificance of the state and the marginal impact of Western development agencies. Extensive ethnographic fieldwork in a Ugandan village reveals that it is churches, the village court, and organizations based on family and kinships obligations that represent the most significant sites of innovation and social transformation.Groundbreaking and critical in turn, Beyond the State offers a new anthropological perspective on how to think about processes of social and political change in poorer parts of the world. It should appeal to anyone interested in African development.
Author: Joanna R. Quinn
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0774859598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHuman rights violations leave deep scars on people, societies, and nations. Since the early 1990s, international rights groups have argued that resolving the violence of the past through instruments of transitional justice such as truth commissions is a necessary condition for a peaceful future. But how can nations ensure that these tribunals are the best path to reconciliation? The Politics of Acknowledgement develops a theoretical framework of acknowledgement with which to evaluate truth commissions. Rather than applying this framework to successful tribunals, Joanna Quinn uses it to analyze the difficulties encountered and the ultimate failure of two poorly understood truth commissions in Uganda and Haiti. The failure of these commissions reveals that if reconciliation is to be achieved, acknowledgement of past violence and harm – by both victims and perpetrators – must come before goals such as forgiveness, social trust, civic engagement, and social cohesion.
Author: David M. Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 1317539516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the fifty years between 1940 and 1990, the countries of eastern Africa were embroiled in a range of debilitating and destructive conflicts, starting with the wars of independence, but then incorporating rebellion, secession and local insurrection as the Cold War replaced colonialism. The articles gathered here illustrate how significant, widespread, and dramatic this violence was. In these years, violence was used as a principal instrument in the creation and consolidation of the authority of the state; and it was also regularly and readily utilised by those who wished to challenge state authority through insurrection and secession. Why was it that eastern Africa should have experienced such extensive and intensive violence in the fifty years before 1990? Was this resort to violence a consequence of imperial rule, the legacy of oppressive colonial domination under a coercive and non-representative state system? Did essential contingencies such as the Cold War provoke and promote the use of violence? Or, was it a choice made by Africans themselves and their leaders, a product of their own agency? This book focuses on these turbulent decades, exploring the principal conflicts in six key countries – Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Tanzania. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.
Author: Jim Ocitti
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780981626499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr. Ocitti traces the life of one of the most illustrious military and political leaders in Acholi of Northern Uganda at the intersection of history between the 19th and 20th centuries by illuminating the man's contribution to social change in Northern Uganda during the malleable early phase of colonial rule in the area.
Author: Edmund Jan Osmańczyk
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13: 9780415939249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis thoroughly revised and updated edition is the most comprehensive and detailed reference ever published on United Nations. The book demystifies the complex workings of the world's most important and influential international body.
Author: D. Freeman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-09-03
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 1137017252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelopment was founded on the belief that religion was not important to development processes. The contributors call this assumption into question and explore the practical impacts of religion by looking at the developmental consequences of Pentecostal Christianity in Africa, and by contrasting Pentecostal and secular models of change.
