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This volume examines democracy and elections in Africa, taking stock of the state of constitutional democracy on the continent after the democratic gains of the 1990s and 2000s, focusing on how competitive politics or multiparty democracy can be realized and how, through competition, such politics could lead to better policy and practice outcomes.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgement -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The state of governance in Africa -- Chapter 3 Federal systems of governance in Africa: Patterns and pitfalls -- Chapter 4 Federalism, devolution, and territorially-based cleavages in Africa: Does institutional design matter? -- Chapter 5 Regional organisations in the Horn of Africa: From state-centred to people-centred integration? -- Chapter 6 Kenya's ethno-politics and devolved governance: The complexities and dilemmas of diversity and inclusion -- Chapter 7 South Sudan: Devolution by presidential decree versus constitutional federalism -- Chapter 8 Federalism in Somalia: Derailed or on track? -- Chapter 9 Lessons in fiscal federalism for Somalia: Building fiscal sustainability and national cohesion -- Chapter 10 Constitutional adjudication and constitutional governance in the Horn: Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Sudan -- Index.

Der Band versammelt die Vorträge der Internationalen Konferenz zur Verfassungsgebung in Afrika des Community Law Centers an der University of the Western Cape. In den Beiträgen werden Verfassungsgebungsprozesse in neun afrikanischen Staaten erörtert, darunter in Simbabwe, Kenia und Äthiopien

In Russia, as the confrontation over the constitutional distribution of authority raged, Boris Yeltsin's economic program regularly wended its way in and out of the Constitutional Court until Yeltsin finally suspended that court in the aftermath of his clash with the hard-line parliament. In Europe, French and German legislators and executives now routinely alter desired policies in response to or in anticipation of the pronouncements of constitutional courts. In Latin America and Africa, courts are--or will be-- important participants in ongoing efforts to establish constitutional rules and policies protect new or fragile democracies from the threats of military intervention, ethnic conflict, and revolution. This global expansion of judicial power, or judicialization of politics is accompanied by an increasing domination of negotiating or decision making arenas by quasi- judicial procedures. For better or for worse, the judicialization of politics has become one of the most significant trends of the end of the millenium.In this book, political scientists, legal scholars, and judges around the world trace the intellectual origins of this trend, describe its occurence--or lack of occurence--in specific nations, analyze the circumstances and conditions that promote or retard judicialization, and evaluate the phenomenon from a variety of intellectual and ideological perspectives