Federalism And The Courts In Africa

Author : Yonatan T. Fessha
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000042243
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federalism and the Courts in Africa written by Yonatan T. Fessha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the design and impact of courts in African federal systems from a comparative perspective. Recent developments indicate that the previously stymied idea of federalism is now being revived in the constitutional arrangements of several African countries. A number of them jumped on the bandwagon of federalism in the early 1990s because it came to be seen as a means to facilitate development, to counter the concentration of power in a single governmental actor and to manage communal tensions. An important part of the move towards federalism is the establishment of courts that are empowered to umpire intergovernmental disputes. This edited volume brings together contributions that first discuss questions of design by focusing, in particular, on the organization of the judiciary and the appointment of judges in African federal systems. They then examine whether courts have had a rather centralizing or decentralizing impact on the operation of African federal systems. The book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers in the areas of comparative constitutional law and comparative politics.

Author : Nicholas Theodore Aroney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487511485
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courts in Federal Countries written by Nicholas Theodore Aroney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courts are key players in the dynamics of federal countries since their rulings have a direct impact on the ability of governments to centralize and decentralize power. Courts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Nigeria, Spain, and the United States. The volume’s contributors analyse the centralizing or decentralizing forces at play following a court’s ruling on issues such as individual rights, economic affairs, social issues, and other matters. The thirteen substantive chapters have been written to facilitate comparability between the countries. Each chapter outlines a country’s federal system, explains the constitutional and institutional status of the court system, and discusses the high court’s jurisprudence in light of these features. Courts in Federal Countries offers insightful explanations of judicial behaviour in the world’s leading federations.

Author : Aaron Tsado Gana
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592210800
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federalism in Africa written by Aaron Tsado Gana and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the experiences of other federal societies across the globe this volume interrogates the problem of national integration within the context of ethno-religious and cultural pluralism, and presents exciting prospects for the resolution of the National Question. Compelling and indispensable, this work is the most comprehensive and authoritative treatment of the subject in recent years.

Author : Nicholas Aroney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487500629
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courts in Federal Countries written by Nicholas Aroney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Nigeria, Spain, and the United States.

Author : Aaron Tsado Gana
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federalism in Africa: Framing the national question written by Aaron Tsado Gana and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ateh-Afac Fossungu
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779295391
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Africa Out of the Dungeon written by Ateh-Afac Fossungu and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2019-08-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using one of the continents supposed pathfinders, Cameroon as case-study, this book interrogates judiciary in Africa in three domains. First, as the third branch of government, second, as the acknowledged umpire of federalism, and, finally, as a means of reversing the institutionalization of in-human rights and injustice administration in Africa. While examining the roots and causes of the persisting human rights and justice administration problems in Cameroon particularly, and Africa in general, the book through the tumbu-tumbu Long-Distance Government Theory (LDGT), argues for a rethinking and freeing of strategies currently used from close to a century of colonial and neo-colonial bondage, under the confusing covers of independence and of advanced democracy. The book challenges Africa to consider a mentality change, for a real judiciary transformative change. The book will interest legal practitioners, social anthropologists, development studies and political science practitioners, among other such practitioners in the social sciences and humanities.

Author : Aaron Tsado Gana
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781592210794
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federalism in Africa: The imperative of democratic development written by Aaron Tsado Gana and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first attempt at a scholarly historicisation of the African crisis of development. It interrogates the problem of national integration within the context of ethno-religious and cultural pluralism. Drawing on the experiences of other organ

Author : David P. Currie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federalism and the New Nations of Africa written by David P. Currie and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katy Le Roy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773577904
Total Pages : 779 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Governance in Federal Countries written by Katy Le Roy and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-09-19 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative studies examine the constitutional design and actual operation of governments in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, India, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States. Contributors analyze the structures and workings of legislative, executive, and judicial institutions in each sphere of government. They also explore how the federal nature of the polity affects those institutions and how the institutions in turn affect federalism. The book concludes with reflections on possible future trends.

Author : Charles M. Fombad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192585037
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decentralization and Constitutionalism in Africa written by Charles M. Fombad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays assesses the efforts of African governments to constitutionalise decentralisation, be it in the form of federalism, local government or traditional authorities. Since the end of the Cold War jurisdictions across Africa have witnessed an ostensible return to multi-party democracy within the paradigm of constitutionalism and the rule of law. Linked to the democratisation process, many countries took steps to decentralize power by departing from the heavily centralized systems inherited from colonial regimes. The centralization of power, typically characterized by the personalization and concentration of power in the hands of leaders and privileged elites in capital cities, mostly resulted in repressive regimes and fragile states. As decentralisation is a response to these challenges, this volume analyses the dynamic relationship between the efforts to implement decentralization and presence or absence of constitutionalism. This volume examines a variety of forms and degrees of decentralization found across Africa. It advances a new understanding of trends and patterns and facilitates the exchange of ideas among African governments and scholars about the critical role that decentralisation may play in democratization of and constitutionalism in Africa.