Cooperative collegial democracy for Africa and multi-ethnic societies
Subtitle: democracy without tears
By: Emefiena Ezeani
Series: Africa in development -- v. 13; Africa in development -- v. 13.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9783034308274
Subjects: Politics and government; Cultural pluralism; Political parties; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is democracy?; title: Centripetalism : a competitive model of democracy; title: Consociationalism : a quasi-cooperative model of democracy; title: Democracy in pre-colonial and post-colonial Africa; title: Ethnicity, religion, the judiciary and liberal democracy in a multi-ethnic society; title: Godfatherism, privatisation of the state and diminution of political space; title: Giovanni Sartori : political parties, party-less state and competitive democracy; title: The unanswered national questions and the party model of democracy; title: The party system and some specific issues; title: Voting under the veil of ignorance and the belief in the people's power; title: Cooperative collegial democracy : a workable model for Africa and multi-ethnic societies; title: Epilogue : corruption and democracy : learning from the Nigerian experience.