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Promoting Good Governance in Africa - Three Popular Misconceptions
Good Governance in Afrika - drei falsche Vorstellungen
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dc.contributor.author | Lierl, Malte | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-12T13:21:47Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-12T13:21:47Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | de |
dc.identifier.issn | 1862-3603 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/63540 | |
dc.description.abstract | Despite the rise of multiparty democracy, many African governments still struggle to control corruption and to improve the legitimacy of the state. To promote better governance, international development assistance supports ambitious reform agendas and idealistic models of governance. However, these programmes and interventions frequently misunderstand the realities of governance in weak and fragile states. Corruption and patronage are usually not clandestine, but highly visible. It is not a lack of information or awareness that keeps citizens from holding their governments accountable, but a lack of effective and legitimate channels for public dissent. In many countries, elite networks continue to protect their members as they violate laws - and also expect them to bend formal rules to advance the interests of their group. Public participation can only contribute to government legitimacy if it has a genuine impact on political decisions. However this is often not the case, because elites have little to gain from building political consensus or aggregating competing interests into collectively rational decisions. Decentralisation reforms result in the proliferation of local-level institutions, but fail to bring the state closer to the people. Most African states have never had strong control over peripheral territories, and have relied on informal gatekeepers and traditional authorities to access local populations. Neither central governments nor local gatekeepers have strong incentives to cede real authority to local-level political institutions. Well-intentioned reform programmes fail to have the desired effects, because they attempt to change the political reality to conform to idealised conceptions of governance. Governance reforms might be more successful if they focus instead on reducing the contradictions between formal institutions and informal practices in weak and fragile states. To this end, development organisations should actively engage in research and innovation. | de |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Staatsformen und Regierungssysteme | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Systems of governments & states | en |
dc.subject.ddc | Politikwissenschaft | de |
dc.subject.ddc | Political science | en |
dc.title | Promoting Good Governance in Africa - Three Popular Misconceptions | de |
dc.title.alternative | Good Governance in Afrika - drei falsche Vorstellungen | de |
dc.description.review | begutachtet | de |
dc.description.review | reviewed | en |
dc.source.volume | 3 | de |
dc.publisher.country | DEU | |
dc.publisher.city | Hamburg | de |
dc.source.series | GIGA Focus Afrika | |
dc.subject.classoz | Staat, staatliche Organisationsformen | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Political System, Constitution, Government | en |
dc.subject.classoz | politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur | de |
dc.subject.classoz | Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Afrika südlich der Sahara | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | Africa South of the Sahara | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | politisches System | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | political system | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Governance | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | governance | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Regierung | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | government | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Transparenz | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | transparency | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | politischer Prozess | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | political lawsuit | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Korruption | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | corruption | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | politische Partizipation | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | political participation | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Zivilbevölkerung | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | civilian population | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Klientelismus | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | clientelism | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Dezentralisation | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | decentralization | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Bürger | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | citizen | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | Staat | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | national state | en |
dc.subject.thesoz | politische Macht | de |
dc.subject.thesoz | political power | en |
dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-63540-3 | |
dc.rights.licence | Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 | de |
dc.rights.licence | Creative Commons - Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 | en |
ssoar.contributor.institution | GIGA | de |
internal.status | formal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossen | de |
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dc.type.stock | monograph | de |
dc.type.document | Arbeitspapier | de |
dc.type.document | working paper | en |
dc.source.pageinfo | 12 | de |
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dc.contributor.corporateeditor | GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies - Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien, Institut für Afrika-Studien | |
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dc.description.pubstatus | Veröffentlichungsversion | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Published Version | en |
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