Cooperative collegial democracy for Africa and multi-ethnic societies democracy without tears /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ezeani, Emefiena
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2013.
Series:Africa in development ; v. 13.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • What is democracy?
  • Centripetalism : a competitive model of democracy
  • Consociationalism : a quasi-cooperative model of democracy
  • Democracy in pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa
  • Ethnicity, religion, the judiciary and liberal democracy in a multi-ethnic society
  • Godfatherism, privatisation of the state and diminution of political space
  • Giovanni Sartori : political parties, party-less state and competitive democracy
  • The unanswered national questions and the party model of democracy
  • The party system and some specific issues
  • Voting under the veil of ignorance and the belief in the people's power
  • Cooperative collegial democracy : a workable model for Africa and multi-ethnic societies
  • Epilogue : corruption and democracy : learning from the Nigerian experience.