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Wage Inequality by Gender and Occupation
International Labour Office 2006; US$ 5.00Using Key Indicators of the Labour Market (KILM) of the period 1990-2003, estimates earnings differences between men and women in selected developed and developing countries. Discusses the impact of globalization on wages and analyses trends in gender equity in pay within occupations and sectors. more...
African Governance Report 2009
Oxford University Press 2009; US$ 37.99The African Governance Report, which assesses and monitors the progress of governance in Africa, is the most comprehensive periodic report on governance on the continent. This second edition of the report covers 35 African countries. The main finding of the report is that Africa within the last five years recorded marginal progress on governance. The... more...
Struggles for Citizenship in Africa
Zed Books 2013; US$ 23.95Hundreds of thousands of people living in Africa find themselves non-persons in the only state they have ever known. This book intends to bring together fresh material from across Africa of some of the most egregious examples of citizenship discrimination. more...
Institutions, Ethnicity, and Political Mobilization in South Africa
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2009; US$ 85.00Post-apartheid South Africa, notable for a history of politicized ethnicity, a complicated network of ethnic groups and for an expectation that ethnic violence would follow the 1994 political transition, did not experience dramatic ethnic violence following democratization in 1994. The South African experience provides a rich example of successful... more...
Parteiensystem und Verfassung in Afrika
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2010; US$ 45.21Die Studie befasst sich mit dem prekären Verhältnis von Staat, Partei und Gesellschaft in Afrika und den sich daraus ergebenden funktionalen und strukturellen Entwicklungsbedingungen für Verfassung und Parteiensystem in historischer Perspektive. Im Hinblick auf eine auf Afrika bezogene Parteienforschung rücken demokratietheoretische, konzeptionelle... more...
Public Opinion and Interest Group Politics
Africa Institute of South Africa 2012; US$ 43.00In more developed democracies, such as the US and Germany, interest groups both shape and promote public opinion. Regrettably, this is not always true in South Africa�s nascent system. This anthology tries to understand why interest groups do not affect or advance public opinion in South Africa and then suggests how interest groups can redress the... more...
Reconstructing the Authoritarian State in Africa
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.53This work seeks to examine the nature and dynamics of authoritarianism in Africa and to suggest ways in which the states covered in the book can be democratically reconstituted. In 1990, a wave of euphoria greeted the "third wave of democratization" that swept across the African Continent. The repression-wearied subalterns were hopeful that the... more...
Identity, Citizenship, and Political Conflict in Africa
Indiana University Press 2014; US$ 21.99Reflecting on the processes of nation-building and citizenship formation in Africa, Edmond J. Keller believes that although some deep parochial identities have eroded, they have not disappeared and may be more assertive than previously thought, especially in instances of political conflict. Keller reconsiders how national identity has been understood... more...
Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy
UPA 2008; US$ 45.50Since the 1990s, trends in African politics require the realization that the public policy practice and the theoretical analysis of 'democracy and democratization' are becoming increasingly important tenets for understanding the contemporary political science of the region. Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy explains these new political processes... more...
South Africa
SAGE Publications 1996; US$ 48.00South Africa held its first fully democratic elections in April 1994. The process was an archetypal case of a negotiated transition of a regime, and as such it is of great interest to students of constitutional mechanisms. The contributors to this book discuss the process, the difficulties and the achievements in the transformation of the South Africa's... more...
