The question of "getting politics right" has taken on growing importance in Africa, as the continent's economic crisis continues unabated, and with political reform occurring in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In response to this situation, scholars are addressing how African countries are being governed and what the constraints and opportunities are for political reform. Their focus on governance marks a new departure in comparative politics, recognizing the potential significance of actors other than governments, notably the various associations that make up civil society. This book is the first to systematically explore this new conceptual orientation. Governance and politics in Africa edited by Göran Hydén; Michael Bratton. Boulder, Colo. : L. Rienner, 1992. 1555872859. OCLC 24064898. 329 p. ; 24 cm. Governance and the study of politics / Goran Hyden, Toward governance in Africa : popular demands and state responses / Michael Bratton & Nicolas van de Walle, Governance, democracy, and the 1988 Senegalese elections / Crawford Young & Babacar Kante, State-society relations in Botswana : beginning liberalization / John D. Holms & Patrick P. Molutsi, Accommodation in the midst of crisis? : Assessing governance in Nigeria / Donald C. Williams, Liberalization, governance, and political space in Ghana / Naomi Chazan, Grassroots legitimation of military governance in Burkina Faso and Niger : the core contradictions / Pearl T. Robinson, The rise and fall of a governance realm in Kenya / Joel D. Barkan, Rwanda : recent debates over governance and rural development / Catharine Newbury, Local organizations, participation, and the state in urban Tanzania / Aili Mari Tripp, Initiatives from below : Zaire's other path to social and economic restructuring / Janet MacGaffey, The institutional bases of governance in Africa / Michael Bratton & Donald Rothchild.
