Accountable Government In Africa —— Perspectives From Public Law And Political Studies

----- 非洲有责任的政府：公法和政治研究视角

ISBN: 9781919895376 出版年：2012 页码：319 Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa^^lia Nijzink UCT Press

In the early 1990s, a wave of democratisation swept the african continent, resulting in a flurry of constitution-making and constitutional revision which entrenched human rights and established various institutional mechanisms to hold governments to account. After two decades of constitutional changes and other developments affecting governance in africa it is now time to take stock and assess to what extent accountable governance has taken root there.

Combining insights from public law and political studies, this edited volume looks at various institutions and mechanisms of accountability - national prosecuting authorities, the judiciary, human rights commissions, political parties and informal mechanisms. It assesses their effectiveness in holding african governments to account and how these institutions themselves are being held accountable.