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Legislative Development in Africa - Politics and Postcolonial Legacies (Hardcover)
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Legislative Development in Africa - Politics and Postcolonial Legacies (Hardcover)
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What explains contemporary variations in African legislative
institutions - including their strengths and weaknesses? Compared
with the more powerful executive branches, legislatures throughout
the continent have historically been classified as weak and largely
inconsequential to policy-making processes. But, as Ken Ochieng'
Opalo suggests here, African legislatures actually serve important
roles, and under certain conditions, powerful and independent
democratic legislatures can emerge from their autocratic
foundations. In this book, Opalo examines the colonial origins of
African legislatures, as well as how postcolonial intra-elite
politics structured the processes of adapting inherited colonial
legislatures to local political contexts and therefore continued
legislative development. Through case studies of Kenya and Zambia,
Opalo offers a comparative longitudinal study of the evolution of
legislative strength and institutionalization as well as a regional
survey of legislative development under colonial rule, postcolonial
autocratic single-party rule, and multiparty politics throughout
Africa.
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