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  title info:
    title: Elites and the politics of accountability in Africa
  name:
    name part: Adebanwi, Wale
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Orock, Rogers
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 390 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa examines the ways that accountability offers an effective interpretive lens to the social, cultural, and institutional struggles of both the elites and ordinary citizens in Africa. Each chapter investigates questions of power, its public deliberation, and its negotiation in Africa by studying elites through the framework of accountability. The book enters conversations about political subjectivity and agency, especially from ongoing struggles around identities and belonging, as well as representation and legitimacy. Who speaks to whom? And on whose behalf do they speak? The contributors to this volume offer careful analyses of how such concerns are embedded in wider forms of cultural, social, and institutional discussions about transparency, collective responsibility, community, and public decision-making processes. These concerns affect prospects for democratic oversight, as well as questions of alienation, exclusivity, privilege and democratic deficit. The book situates our understanding of the emergence, meaning, and conceptual relevance of elite accountability, to study political practices in Africa. It then juxtaposes this contextualization of accountability in relation to the practices of African elites. Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa offers fresh, dynamic, and multifarious accounts of elites and their practices of accountability and locally plausible self-legitimation, as well as illuminating accounts of contemporary African elites in relation to their socially and historicallysituated outcomes of contingency, composition, negotiation, and compromise.
  note: Wale Adebanwi and Rogers Orock, editors.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: Government accountability
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Elite (Social sciences)
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Politics and government
  classification: JQ1875.A55
  related item:
    title info:
      title: African perspectives
  identifier: 9780472074815
  identifier: 0472074814
  identifier: 9780472054817
  identifier: 0472054813
  identifier: 9780472128730
  identifier: 0472128736
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  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 201208
    record change date: 20221129150529.6
    record identifier: in00004605316
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng