African Parliaments Volume 1
African Parliaments Volume 1

Author: Linda Khumalo

Publisher: African Sun Media

Published: 2021-11-23

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 1991201451

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Parliaments play a pivotal role in governance, and yet little is known about how evidence is used for decision-making in these complex, political environments. Together with its practice companion volume, African Parliaments: Systems of evidence in practice, this volume explores the multiple roles legislatures play in governance, the varied mandates and allegiances of elected representatives, and what this means for evidence use. Given the tensions in Africa around the relationships between democracy and development, government and citizen agency, this volume considers the theories around parliamentary evidence use, and interrogates what they mean in the context of African governance.

African Parliaments Volume 2
African Parliaments Volume 2

Author: Linda S. Khumalo

Publisher: African Sun Media

Published:

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1991201532

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The role parliaments play in governance is fundamentally political, and as a result, the institutional side of parliamentary organisations is often overlooked. This volume, together with the theoretical volume African Parliaments: Evidence systems for governance and development, takes a practical look at African parliaments as institutions, and explores the ways in which their structures and processes influence the use of evidence for decision making. A comparative approach helps the reader get a practical view of how this governance interplay is enacted within portfolio committees, on chamber floors, and on the campaign trail. This volume looks at various models parliaments have used to institutionalise evidence use, and considers the implications this has for governance.

Legislative Development in Africa
Legislative Development in Africa

Author: Ken Ochieng' Opalo

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-20

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 110849210X

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Examined the development of legislatures under colonial rule, post-colonial autocratic single party rule, and multi-party politics in Africa.

Postcolonial African Writers
Postcolonial African Writers

Author: Siga Fatima Jagne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 1136593977

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This reference book surveys the richness of postcolonial African literature. The volume begins with an introductory essay on postcolonial criticism and African writing, then presents alphabetically arranged profiles of some 60 writers, including Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, Bessie Head, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tahbar Ben Jelloun, among others. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes that appear in the author's writings, an overview of the critical response to the author's work, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. These profiles are written by expert contributors and reflect many different perspectives. The volume concludes with a selected general bibliography of the most important critical works on postcolonial African literature.

Parliamentary Agency and Regional Integration in Europe and Beyond
Parliamentary Agency and Regional Integration in Europe and Beyond

Author: Bruno Theodoro Luciano

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-17

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1000426963

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This comparative book analyses the development of regional integration parliaments in three different continents of the world. It assesses and compares the expansion and current stage of institutional development of three regional assemblies – the European Parliament, the Pan-African Parliament and the Mercosur Parliament for Latin America. Looking in particular at parliamentary agency, it aims to answer why and to what extent, these regional parliaments have developed differently in terms of their functions and legislative competences? Drawing on new and original empirical data, official documents, and secondary literature, the book focuses on the "critical junctures" in the trajectory of the three assemblies and argues that parliamentary agency has impacted the institutional development of the parliaments leading to diverse paths of regional parliamentarisation. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of global and regional governance, comparative regionalism, European Union studies, legislative studies and more broadly to international relations, history, law, political economy, and international organisations.

A World Parliament
A World Parliament

Author: Andreas Bummel

Publisher:

Published: 2024-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783942282260

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This book explores the history, current relevance, and future implementation of the monumental idea of an elected global parliament. The second edition brings the book up to date and incorporates extensive revisions and additions.

African Successes, Volume I
African Successes, Volume I

Author: Sebastian Edwards

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-09-23

Total Pages: 454

ISBN-13: 022631636X

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Studies of African economic development frequently focus on the daunting challenges the continent faces. From recurrent crises to ethnic conflicts and long-standing corruption, a raft of deep-rooted problems has led many to regard the continent as facing many hurdles to raise living standards. Yet Africa has made considerable progress in the past decade, with a GDP growth rate exceeding five percent in some regions. The African Successes series looks at recent improvements in living standards and other measures of development in many African countries with an eye toward identifying what shaped them and the extent to which lessons learned are transferable and can guide policy in other nations and at the international level. The first volume in the series, African Successes: Governments and Institutions considers the role governments and institutions have played in recent developments and identifies the factors that enable economists to predict the way institutions will function.

International Human Rights Law in Africa & Domestic Human Rights Law in Africa
International Human Rights Law in Africa & Domestic Human Rights Law in Africa

Author: Christof Heyns

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-14

Total Pages: 875

ISBN-13: 9004531998

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The aim of this reference work is to make African human rights law accessible to all those involved in or interested in human rights law on the continent in order to strengthen its impact. Primary documents are introduced and reproduced and presented in a coherent framework. The main institutions - public and private - dealing with human rights in Africa are identified and discussed. Comprehensive overviews of the international human rights legal regimes applicable to Africa, as well as country reports are provided. This book tries to contribute towards documenting, systemising and anchoring the African human rights system. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004138810).

African Parliaments
African Parliaments

Author: M. Salih

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-12-10

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1403979308

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This book offers in-depth analysis of parliamentary development set in a historical context informed by Africa's post-1990s democratic resurgence. In particular, it illustrates how African parliaments are caught between the twin processes of being part of the machinery of government while exercising the function of holding government accountable.