African State Governance

Africa is changing and it is easy to overlook how decentralization, democratization, and new forms of illiberalism have transformed federalism, political parties, and local politics. Chapters on Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and South Africa help fill an important gap in comparative institutional research about state and local politics in Africa.

This book offers an encompassing analysis of the state of subnational political institutions in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. an ambitious book that shows how subnational legislative politics and local democratic development are weakly linked in Africa. This book will become an important reference for those interested in subnational legislative institutions as the missing link in the processes of political change in Africa. (Hélder Ferreira do Vale, Democratization, Vol. 24 (4), 2017)

Autorentext
Yahaya Baba, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Nigeria. Olufunmbi 'Funmbi' M. Elemo, Michigan State University, USA. Joseph Olayinka Fashagba, Landmark University, Omu Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria. Solomon Gofie, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia A. Carl LeVan, American University, Washington, D.C, USA. Majuta J. Mamogale, Limpopo Provincial Legislature, Limpopo Province, South Africa Edward E. McMahon, University of Vermont, USA. Westen Kwatemba Shilaho, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Rotimi Suberu, Bennington College, Vermont, USA.

Inhalt
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Notes on the Contributors
Introduction: Subnational Legislative Politics and African Democratic Development; A. Carl LeVan
PART I: NIGERIA IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

1. Lessons in Fiscal Federalism for Africa ' 's New Oil Exporters; Rotimi T. Suberu
2. Taxation and Determinants of Legislative Representation in Africa; Olufunmbi Elemo
3. Subnational Legislatures and National Governing Institutions in Nigeria, 1999-2014; Joseph Olayinka Fashagba
4. Executive Dominance or Subnational Democratization? State and National-Level Institutions Compared; Yahaya T. Baba
   PART II: NEW INSTITUTIONAL FRONTIERS IN FEDERALISM
5. Devolution Under Kenya ' 's 2010 Constitutional Dispensation; Westen Shilaho
6. Central Control and Regional States ' ' Autonomy in Ethiopia; Solomon Gofie
7. Provincial Governance and Party Competition in Post-Apartheid South Africa; Majuta Judas Mamogale
   Conclusion: Subnational Politics and National Power in Africa; Joseph Olayinka Fashagba and Edward R. McMahon
   Index