Commonwealth & Comparative Politics articles from July 2002

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics archives from July 2002

Plus ca change ...? anti-party sentiment and electoral system change: a New Zealand case study.
July 1, 2002... Anti-party sentiment tends to be seen as a relatively recent problem for the world's democracies. Evidence from our case study, however, suggests that all its familiar symptoms were present years ago, and that they tend to fluctuate with time...

Malawi's local clergy as civil society activists? The limiting impact of creed, context and class.
July 1, 2002... This article seeks to enrich understandings of civil society in Africa by examining the political activities of Catholic and Presbyterian clergy in Malawi. Although local clergy are well placed to promote citizen empowerment and state...

Social concertation, labour unions and the creation of a black bourgeoisie in South Africa.
July 1, 2002... In South Africa, one of organized labour's most revolutionary responses to globalisation and an emerging social concertation regime is the frenzied establishment of union-owned investment companies by almost all black-majority labour unions....

The impact of election administration on the legitimacy of emerging democracies: a new comparative politics research agenda.
July 1, 2002... This article seeks to push the development of a new sub-field of research in the field of democratisation and institutional design, namely the relationship between the institutionalisation of electoral politics--including the administration of...

Status and statehood: exchange theory and British-Irish relations, 1921-41.
July 1, 2002... This article is an exploratory application of exchange theory to selective aspects of the British-Irish relationship as it evolved from 1921 to 1941. Conceptions of national status and their constitutional manifestation were central to both...

Australia and New Zealand and Federation 1883-1901.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... By Ged Martin (London: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, 2001, pp.xvi + 162, 10 [pounds sterling] pb). This most readable brief discussion of Australian federation focuses on arguments about Australian Federation in relation not only...

Governance in Samoa Pulega i Somoa.(Book Review)(Brief Review)
July 1, 2002... Edited by E. Huffer and A. So'o (Canberra: Asia Pacific Press and Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, 2000, pp.xiv + 222, US $31 pb). In recent years the concept of governance has become of increasing importance to developing countries in...

State and Nation in South Asia.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... By S. Rajagopalan (London: Lynne Rienner, 2001, pp.iv + 231, 46.50 [pounds sterling] hb). This work focuses on the issue of nation building in South Asia through a comparative analysis of the experiences of the Tamil communities in India...

Region and Partition: Bengal, Punjab and the Partition of the Subcontinent.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Edited by Ian Talbot and Gurharpal Singh (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2000, first published 1999, pp.viii + 407, 16.99 [pounds sterling] hb). Despite a spate of books which appeared on the fiftieth anniversary of independence of...

Broadcasting Reform in India: Media Law from a Global Perspective.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Edited by Munroe E. Price and Stefaan G. Verhulst (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp.377, 13.95 [pounds sterling] pb). The substantive focus or occasion of this edited volume is India's 1997 Broadcasting Bill. The bill and the...

Missionaries and a Hindu State: Travancore 1858-1936.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... By Koji Kawashima (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998 [paperback edition 2000], pp.x + 252, 16.99 [pounds sterling] hb; 10 pb [pounds sterling]). This well-written and illuminating study examines the interactions in the...

Selected Works of Govind Ballabh Pant.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Vols. 10 and 12, Chief Editor, B.R. Nanda (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, Vol. 10, 1998, pp.xxxiii + 488, Rs 475; Vol. 12, 1999, pp.xxxiii + 483, Rs 600). First came Gandhi, then Nehru and Patel, and now lesser figures, M.N. Roy and...

African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... By N. van de Walle (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp.xii + 291, 40 [pounds sterling] hb; 14.95 [pounds sterling] pb). This book ventures into the controversial field of explanations for the persistence of the African economic...

Multi-Party Elections in Africa.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... Edited by Michael Cowen and Liisa Laakso (Oxford/New York: James Currey/Palgrave, 2002, pp.x +387, 30 [pounds sterling] hb; 19.95 [pounds sterling] pb). The book comprises 14 country electoral studies of multi-party politics in a survey of...

The International Politics of East Africa.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... By Robert Pinkney (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001, pp.vii + 242, 45 [pounds sterling] hb; 14.95 [pounds sterling] pb). This timely, convincing and well-researched book analyses the relative strength of East African...

Escape from Domination in Africa: Political Disengagement and its Consequences.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... By Bruce Baker (Oxford: James Currey, 2000, pp.xii + 238, 14.95 [pounds sterling] pb). Drawing on a 'social power interpretative perspective', Bruce Baker takes on the ambitious task of exploring the roots and causes of political...

An Introduction to African Politics.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... By Alex Thomson (London: Routledge, 2000, pp.vii + 277, 60 [pounds sterling] hb; 16.99 pb). Starting his book, Thomson writes that 'Africa has a lot to offer the student of politics' (p.1). Reversing the average Western prejudices about...

Bureaucratic and Political Corruption in Africa, The Public Choice Perspective.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... By J.M. Mbaku (Malabar, Florida: Krieger, 2000, pp.xvii + 222, 18.50 [pounds sterling] pb). This book provides an interesting analysis of the anti-corruption reform approach that would best suit the African context. Rich illustrations on a...

British Techniques of Public Relations and Propaganda for Mobilizing East and Central Africa during World War II.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... By Kate Morris (Lewiston, Queenston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000, pp.475, 69.95 [pounds sterling] hb). While it would be untrue to say that empire propaganda is any longer an ignored topic, Kate Morris' study of the mobilisation...

Witchcraft, Power and Politics: Exploring the Occult in the South African Lowveld.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... By Isak Niehaus, with Eliazaar Mohlala and Kally Shokane (Cape Town: David Philip; London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2001, pp.xx + 246, 45 [pounds sterling] hb; 15.99 [pounds sterling] pb). Witchcraft is an age-old phenomenon associated...

Comparative Government and Politics: An Introduction.(Book Review)
July 1, 2002... By R. Hague and M. Harrop (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 5th Edn. 2001, pp.xv + 316, 52.50 [pounds sterling] hb; 17.99 [pounds sterling] pb). When studying--and teaching--comparative politics or comparative government, one has to strike a balance...