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.
Federalism and the Courts in Africa
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.
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.
Federalism in Africa
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.
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.
Courts in Federal Countries
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.
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.
Courts in Federal Countries
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.
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.
Federalism in Africa: Framing the national question
Author: Aaron Tsado Gana
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN:
Category : Comparative government
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN:
Category : Comparative government
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Getting Africa Out of the Dungeon
Author: Ateh-Afac Fossungu
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1779295391
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
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.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 1779295391
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
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.
Federalism and the New Nations of Africa
Author: David P. Currie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Conflict and Peace in the Horn of Africa
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.
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.
A Way Out
Author: Michael Briand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Issues in Federalism
Author: Eme O. Awa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal government
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description