Traditional Institutions in Contemporary African Goveance

by: Kidane Mengisteab (Editor),Gerard Hagg (Editor)

Publisher: Routledge

Edition: 1st

Publication Date: 2017/5/30

Language: English

Print Length: 250 pages

ISBN-10: 1138714895

ISBN-13: 9781138714892

Book Description

Most African economies range from moderately advanced capitalist systems with mode banks and stock markets to peasant and pastoral subsistent systems. Most African countries are also characterized by parallel institutions of goveance – one is the state sanctioned (formal) system and the other is the traditional system, which is adhered to, primarily but not exclusively, by the segments of the population in the subsistence peasant and pastoral economic systems. Traditional Institutions in Contemporary African Goveance examines critical issues that are largely neglected in the literature, including why traditional institutions have remained entrenched, what the socioeconomic implications of fragmented institutional systems are, and whether they facilitate or impede democratization. The contributors investigate the organizational structure of traditional leadership, the level of adherence of the traditional systems, how dispute resolution, decision-making, and resource allocation are conducted in the traditional system, gender relations in the traditional system, and how the traditional institutions interact with the formal institutions. Filling a conspicuous gap in the literature on African goveance, this book will be of great interest to policy makers as well as students and scholars of African politics, political economy and democratization.

About the Author

Most African economies range from moderately advanced capitalist systems with mode banks and stock markets to peasant and pastoral subsistent systems. Most African countries are also characterized by parallel institutions of goveance – one is the state sanctioned (formal) system and the other is the traditional system, which is adhered to, primarily but not exclusively, by the segments of the population in the subsistence peasant and pastoral economic systems. Traditional Institutions in Contemporary African Goveance examines critical issues that are largely neglected in the literature, including why traditional institutions have remained entrenched, what the socioeconomic implications of fragmented institutional systems are, and whether they facilitate or impede democratization. The contributors investigate the organizational structure of traditional leadership, the level of adherence of the traditional systems, how dispute resolution, decision-making, and resource allocation are conducted in the traditional system, gender relations in the traditional system, and how the traditional institutions interact with the formal institutions. Filling a conspicuous gap in the literature on African goveance, this book will be of great interest to policy makers as well as students and scholars of African politics, political economy and democratization.

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