Governing Africa's Changing Societies : Dynamics of Reform.

Intro -- Book Title -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1-The Challenges of Governance in Africa's Changing Societies -- Prevailing Views of Reform -- Understanding Change: Microtransitions -- Three Transformations: Implications for Governance -- Notes -- 2-The Democracy-Governance Connection -- A Democracy-Governance Connection? -- Macroconnections -- Microconnections -- The Arrow of Causality -- Electoral Alternation -- The Case of Mali -- A Representation Gap -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3-Democracy and Economic Performance -- The Authoritarian Disadvantage -- A Democratic Dividend? -- The Paradox of Growth Without Prosperity -- Comparing Economic Performance -- Regimes, Transitions, and Growth -- Poverty and Popular Welfare -- Individual Perceptions and Measures of Welfare -- The Political Hazards of Economic Failure -- Explanations of Performance -- The International Dimension -- Prospects for Change? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4-Contested Land Rights in Rural Africa -- Land Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Two Basic Variants of the Smallholder Land Regime -- Destabilization of Existing Land Regimes -- Land Tenure and Land Politics in Southern Ghana -- The Land Regime -- Politicization of Land Issues in Southern Ghana -- Land Law Reform in Ghana -- Land Tenure and Land Politics in the Farming Districts of the Rift Valley, Kenya -- Land Regimes in the Farming Districts of the Rift -- Politicization of Land Issues in the Rift -- Land Law Reform in Kenya -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5-Property Rights: Preferences and Reform -- A Theory of Resource Exploitation -- Revising a Revisionist Literature -- Study Design and Data Collection -- In the Shadow of a Permissive State -- Divergent Responses in Ga and Akyem Abuakwa -- The Institutional Consequences of Land Sales -- Paths Diverge -- Tying Changing Land Use toChanging Modes of Governance.

Some Alternative Explanations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6-Women's Rights and Family Law Reform in Francophone Africa -- Actors and Alliances for Family Law Reform -- Legal Pluralism and the Context of Reform -- Perceptions of Justice and Rights -- Reforming Family Law -- Benin -- Senegal -- Mali -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7-Religion, Democracy, and Education Reform in the Sahel -- The Governance Context: Negotiating Islam and Democracy in the Sahel -- Reforming Education in the New Sociopolitical (Governance) Contexts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8-Rethinking the Dynamics of Reform in Africa -- The Complexity of Reform -- Reconsidering Development -- The Way Forward -- Notes -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book.

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