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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.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Paramilitary Groups -- Abbreviations and Irish Gaelic Terms -- Timeline -- Main Non-Irish Insurgent Terrorist Groups -- 1. State Crime: 'Bloody Sunday' and the Troubles -- 2. State Terror and Insurgent Terrorism -- 3. Roots of the Troubles: Emergency Context: Conspiracy? -- 4. Security Units: Firearms Policy: Rough Justice -- 5. Dirty Tricks: Intelligence, Informants and Collusion -- 6. Investigations, Courts, Inquiries and Whistle-blowing -- 7. End Game: State Deviance: Learning from the Past -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Describes Indian experiments in coalition politics & minority government, drawing on comparatist analyses while attending to India's uniqueness. Key elements in the Indian experiment include: 1) the size of the victorious coalitions; (2) the foundations underpinning the coalitions; & (3) distribution of offices & length of alliances. References. K. Coddon

Reproduction of documents, related to the period 1988 onwards, issued by the State Law and Order Restoration Council, Burma and National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma formed in exile by the winning candidates of the 1990 multiparty democratic general elections