Consensus as Democracy in Africa Bernard Matolino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matolino, Bernard, author.

Series:

African humanities series.

African humanities series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democratization--Africa.

Democratization.

Democracy--Africa.

Democracy.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 227 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019

Summary:

Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. Central to his challenge to the claimed viability of consensus as a democratic system are three major questions: Is consensus genuinely superior to its majoritarian counterpart? Is consensus itself truly a democratic system? Is consensus sufficiently different from the one-party system? In taking up these issues and others closely associated with them, Matolino shows that consensus as a system of democracy encounters several challenges that make its viability highly doubtful. Matolino then attempts a combination of an understanding of an authentic mode of democracy with African reality to work out what a more desirable polity would be for the continent.

Contents:

Democracy by consensus

Conceptualising consensus

Democracy and consensus

Political parties in consensus

African aspirations, democracy and African democracy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781920033378

1920033378

9781920033361

192003336X

OCLC:

1090456584