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Where there is no government : enforcing property rights in common law Africa / Sandra F. Joireman.
LIBRA KQC772 .J65 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Joireman, Sandra Fullerton.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land tenure--Law and legislation--Africa, English-speaking.
- Land tenure.
- Land tenure--Law and legislation--Ghana.
- Land tenure--Law and legislation--Kenya.
- Land tenure--Law and legislation--Uganda.
- Land tenure--Law and legislation.
- Uganda.
- Kenya.
- Ghana.
- English-speaking Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 208 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Colonization and the myth of the customary
- Under the circumstances, we do what we can: entrepreneurial bureaucrats and the allocation of property rights
- Property rights enforcement by other means: the role of non-governmental organizations
- Private enforcement of property rights: the demand for specialists in violence
- In search of order: state systems of property rights enforcement and their failings
- Drawing conclusions
- Bibliography
- Appendix.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199782482
- 0199782482
- OCLC:
- 681536514
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