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Title:

Constitutions and conflict management in Africa : preventing civil war through institutional design / edited by Alan J. Kuperman.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

vi, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Constitutional law--Africa--Case studies.
Africa--Politics and government--1960---Case studies.
Conflict management--Africa--Case studies.
Civil war--Africa--Prevention.

Other Authors:

Kuperman, Alan J., author. author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-272) and index.

Contents:

Designing constitutions to reduce domestic conflict / Alan J. Kuperman -- Burundi : institutionalizing ethnicity to bridge the ethnic divide / Filip Reyntjens -- Kenya : gradual pluralization fails to buffer shocks / Gilbert M. Khadiagala -- Nigeria : devolution to mitigate conflict in the Niger Delta / Eghosa E. Osaghae -- Sudan : "successful" constitutional reform spurs localized violence / Karly Kupferberg and Stefan Wolff -- Ghana : the complements of successful centralization : checks, balances, and informal accommodation / Justin Orlando Frosini -- Senegal : the limits of hyper-centralization / I. William Zartman, Hillary Thomas-Lake, and Arame Tall -- Zimbabwe : the unintended consequences of authoritarian institutions / Andrew Reynolds -- Africa's domestic institutions of integration and accommodation : a new database / Eli Poupko -- Rethinking constitutional reform for democracy and stability / Alan J. Kuperman.

Series:

National and ethnic conflict in the twenty-first century

ISBN:

0812246586
9780812246582

OCLC:

(OCoLC)904755923

LCCN:

2015008083

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)