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Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- About the Editors -- About the Authors -- Accountable government in Africa: Introduction -- Overview -- Scope and significance -- Defining 'accountable government' -- The chapters in this book -- Post-apartheid accountability: The transformation of a political idea -- Introduction -- Accountability in the independent labour movement after 1973 -- The emergence of the post-apartheid model of accountability -- Two models of accountability compared -- The limits of accountability in capitalist society -- Conclusion -- The politics of constitutional reform in Zambia: From executive dominance to public participation? -- Introduction -- The history of constitution-making in Zambia -- From executive dominance to public participation? -- Conclusion -- Judicial independence and the judicialisation of electoral politics in Malawi and Uganda1 -- Introduction -- Courts and elections in Malawi -- Courts and elections in Uganda -- Do strategic models explain these patterns? -- Multifaceted explanations needed -- Conclusion -- From parliamentary supremacy to judicial review: Relations between Parliament and the judiciary in Tanzania -- Introduction -- Parliamentary supremacy in Tanzania -- From parliamentary supremacy to judicial review -- An uneasy relationship -- The Mtikila case: The judiciary and Parliament collide -- Further clashes between Parliament and the judiciary -- The excercise of judical powers by Parliament -- Conclusion -- Judicial review of parliamentary actions in South Africa: A nuanced interpretation of the separation of powers -- Introduction -- The judicial approach to reviewing parliamentary actions -- The limits of judicial intervention -- Conclusion -- Prosecutions, politics and the law: The way things are -- Introduction.

In the early 1990s, a wave of democratisation swept the African continents, resulting in a flurry of constitution-making and constitutional revision. Two decades later, leading experts in the fields of public law, political sciemnce and democratisation studies assess to what extent accountable governance has takenroot in Africa. this book represesents new knowldge about legal and political developments in a number of African countries - Ghana, Malawi, Mali, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, with further references to Mozambique, Kenya and Swaziland - bringing the policy goal of developing and deepening democratic governance and accountable government on the continent up to date.