UID:
almahu_9949385949002882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 167 pages)
ISBN:
9780429294501
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0429294506
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9781000042245
,
1000042243
,
9781000042184
,
1000042189
,
9781000042214
,
1000042219
Content:
"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 organisation 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"--
Note:
Introduction /
,
Judicial Federalism in Comparative Perspective /
,
Federalism and the Courts in Nigeria /
,
Giving 'Shape and Texture' to the Federal System? Ethiopia's Courts and its Unusual Umpire /
,
The Courts and the Provinces in South Africa /
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The Courts and Local Governments in South Africa /
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The Courts and Devolution: The Kenyan Experience /
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Comparative Observations /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Federalism and the courts in Africa. New York : Routledge, 2020 ISBN 9780367266707
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429294501
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429294501
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