Governance and Political Adaptation in Fragile States

The book examines the various ways that fragile states (or states with limited statehood) in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas have adopted, and adapted to, the processes of liberal political governance in their quests to address the problem of political fragility. It presents the stories...

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Hovedforfatter: Lahai, John Idriss
Andre forfattere: Strokirch, Karin von, 19..- (Directeur de la publication), Brasted, Howard, 1927- (Directeur de la publication), Ware, Helen (Directeur de la publication)
Format: Livre numérique
Sprog:Anglais
Udgivet: Cham : Springer International Publishing [20..].
Cham : Springer Nature
Udgivelse:1st ed. 2019.
Online adgang:Accès sur la plateforme Springer
Accès Université d'Orléans
Kommentar: Springer e-books science politique (Licence nationale)
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Edition sous un autre format:• Governance and Political Adaptation in Fragile States, Texte imprimé, 9783319907482
• Governance and Political Adaptation in Fragile States, Texte imprimé, 9783319907505
• Governance and Political Adaptation in Fragile States, Texte imprimé, 9783030080891
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • 1. Introduction 2. The History and Representations of The Challenges of Governance in the fragile States of Sub-Saharan Africa 3. Reifying Imagined Communities: The Triumph of the Fragile Nation-State and the Peril of Modernization 4. From Saving Failed States to Managing Risks: Reinterpreting Fragility through Resilience 5. Adapting to Survive: The Peculiar Fate of Liberal Governance Models in East Timor 6. Somalia: The Struggles in the Transient Phases in 'Somali-Style' (and Other Hybrid) Models of Governance 7. Whither Pakistan: The Ambivalence of Constitutional Road Mapping? 8. Managing Fragility? Chad's (Il)liberal Interventions and the Making of a Regional Hegemon 9. More Legitimate, Less Fragile, Less-Liberal? The Adoption and Adaptation of Elections in Afghanistan 10. Does Electoral Authoritarianism Persist? A Comparison of Recent Elections in Fiji, Seychelles And Maldives 11. Governance and Political Adaptation: Constituency Development Funds in Solomon Islands and the Construction of a Melanesian State. .