Measuring democracy and human rights in Southern Africa / Yul Derek Davids ... [and others] ; compiled by Henning Melber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davids, Yul Derek.

Melber, Henning.

Series:

Discussion paper (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) ; 18.

LSE health and social care discussion paper

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Africa, Southern.

Democracy.

Human rights.

Southern Africa.

Human rights--Africa, Southern.

Physical Description:

49 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Uppsala : Nordiiska Afrikainstitutet ; Somerset, NJ : Distributor in North America, Transaction Publishers, 2002.

Summary:

Are there ways and means of measuring democracy and "good governance"? The con-tributions to this Discussion Paper present attempts to do this by means of surveys on democratic attitudes in Mozambique and Namibia respectively, as well as by exploring the degree of commitment to and violation of human rights in a comparative perspective in Namibia and South Africa. They illustrate attitudes by offering empirical evidence of the preferences and views of local people, as well as by examining the track record of a human rights culture. In doing so, by going beyond a level of theoretical analysis, they offer concrete evidence of attitudes prevalent among both individuals and state agencies in societies of Southern Africa.

Notes:

Papers from a workshop held in Capetown, South Africa, in Dec. 2001.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9171064974

OCLC:

50841179