Legislative Development in Africa by Ken Ochieng' Opalo
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Description What explains the variation in the functions and powers of various legislatures throughout Africa? Under what conditions can powerful and independent democratic legislatures emerge from their autocratic foundations? In this book, Ken Ochieng' Opalo explains the roles of African legislatures and looks at their development since colonial rule.
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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.
Author Biography
Ken Ochieng' Opalo is an assistant professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and B.A. from Yale University, Connecticut. His work has been published in journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Democracy, and the Journal of Eastern African Studies. His research interests include historical institutional development (with a focus on legislatures), the political economy of development, and the politics of the provision of public goods and services. Opalo's research has been supported by Stanford University's Susan Ford Dorsey Fellowship, the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID), and the Omidyar Network.
Details ISBN 1108710352 ISBN-13 9781108710350 Title Legislative Development in Africa Author Ken Ochieng' Opalo Format Paperback Year 2020 Pages 294 Publisher Cambridge University Press GE_Item_ID:129236015; About Us
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