Disciplining Democracy: Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa - Softcover

Abrahamsen, Rita

 
9781856498593: Disciplining Democracy: Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa

Inhaltsangabe

This thought-provoking book does not simply link the West's good governance agenda with the demise of the Soviet Union. Abrahamsen shows that this democratic agenda involves little more than superficial institutional reforms. The West's primary goal in developing countries remains the enforcement of structural adjustment. African governments, in particular, remain in a double bind, nominally responsible to their electorates at home, but also beholden to external creditors and donors. Demands by impoverished electorates that their new democratic institutions actually work to defend their interests are often branded as illegitimate by the West.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rita Abrahamsen is a lecturer in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.

Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels

9781856498586: Disciplining Democracy: Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa

Vorgestellte Ausgabe

ISBN 10:  1856498581 ISBN 13:  9781856498586
Verlag: Zed Books Ltd, 2001
Hardcover