Aid and authoritarianism in Africa : development without democracy / edited by Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagmann, Tobias, editor.

Reyntjens, Filip, editor.

Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, publisher.

Series:

Africa now (Zed Books)

Africa now

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--Political aspects--Africa.

Economic assistance.

Economic assistance--Moral and ethical aspects.

Authoritarianism--Africa.

Authoritarianism.

Africa--Politics and government--1960-.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2016.

Summary:

A revealing and urgent insight into the motives, dynamics and consequences of the increasing amounts of development aid given by the West to authoritarian governments in Africa.

Contents:

Introduction : aid and authoritarianism in sub-Saharan Africa after 1990 / Tobias Hagmann and Filip Reyntjens

Discourses of democracy, practices of autocracy : shifting meanings of democracy in the aid-authoritarianism nexus / Rita Abrahamsen

Aid to Rwanda : unstoppable rock, immovable post / Zoë Marriage

Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Uganda / David M. Anderson and Jonathan Fisher

Ethiopia and international aid : development between high modernism and exceptional measures / Emanuele Fantini and Luca Puddu

Donors and the making of 'credible' elections in Cameroon / Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle

Foreign aid and political settlements : contrasting the Mozambican and Angolan cases / Helena Pérez Niño and Philippe Le Billon

Conclusion : democracy fatigue and the ghost of modernization theory / Nicolas van de Walle.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350218369

1350218367

9781783606306

1783606304

OCLC:

944346327

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access