Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Federalism and the Courts in Africa PDF full book. Access full book title Federalism and the Courts in Africa by Yonatan T. Fessha. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Yonatan T. Fessha Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000042243 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
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: Yonatan T. Fessha Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000042243 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 176
Book Description
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: Aaron Tsado Gana Publisher: Africa World Press ISBN: 9781592210800 Category : Comparative government Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
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 Theodore Aroney Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487511485 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 600
Book Description
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: Nicholas Aroney Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487500629 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 598
Book Description
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: Fossungu, Peter Ateh-Afac Publisher: Africa Talent Publishers ISBN: 0797497811 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 234
Book Description
Using one of the continent’s 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: Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317140974 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 341
Book Description
How federalism can be used to provide recognition and accommodate ethnic groups is an important topic, not only in Africa, but in multi-ethnic communities around the world. Examining how institutions of multi-ethnic states have been designed to accommodate ethnic diversity while at the same time maintaining national unity, this book locates institutional responses to the challenges of ethnic diversity within the context of a federal arrangement. It examines how a federal arrangement has been used to reconcile the conflicting pressures of the demand for the recognition of distinctive identities, on the one hand, and the promotion of political and territorial integrity, on the other. Comparative case studies of South Africa and Ethiopia as the two federal systems provide a contrasting approach to issues of ethnic diversity. Suggesting new ways in which federalism might work, the author identifies key institutions lessons which will help to build an all-inclusive society.
Author: Peter Woodward Publisher: Dartmouth Publishing Group ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 152
Book Description
This collection of papers are the result of a conference on federalism held at the Centre for Federal Studies, University of Leicester. It provides a background to the crises in Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan and investigates the prospects for peace, political stability, and economic progress in this troubled area of the world. It argues that a federal, or at least a strongly regionalised system of government, could lay an important part in helping to bring internal peace to the countries of the Horn of Africa.
Author: Yonatan T. Fessha
Author: Yonatan T. Fessha
Author: Aaron Tsado Gana
Author: Nicholas Theodore Aroney
Author: Nicholas Aroney
Author: Aaron Tsado Gana
Author: Fossungu, Peter Ateh-Afac
Author: David P. Currie
Author: Yonatan Tesfaye Fessha
Author: Peter Woodward
Author: Michael Briand