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OverviewConstitution-making for democracy has always been a highly political and contested process. It has never been more ambitious, or more difficult, than today as politicians and experts attempt to build democratic institutions that will foster peace and stability in countries torn by violent conflict. The extended investigation out of which this book has grown has ranged across three continents. It has examined such apparently intractable cases as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sri Lanka and Fiji, as well as apparent 'success stories' like South Africa, Ghana and Uganda. The authors, while regarding democracy as a general entitlement, refuse to subscribe to a triumphalist view which sees it as a universal panacea. Instead they seek to understand how democratic institutions actually facilitate (or sometimes fail to facilitate) improved governance and the management of conflict in a variety of national settings. This thoughtful and empirical set of explorations is highly relevant to other societies wrestling with similar problems of institutional design in situations of democratic transition and/or deep-seated social conflict. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robin Luckham , Sunil BastianPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Zed Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.426kg ISBN: 9781842771518ISBN 10: 1842771515 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 01 June 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Can Democracy be Designed? - Sunil Bastian and Robin Luckham 1. Democratic Institutions and Democratic Politics and Political Violence - Robin Luckham, Anne Marie Goetz and Mary Kaldor 2. The Politics of Institutional Design in the South African Transition - David Pottie and Shireen Hassim 3. The Reformulation of Ugandan Democracy - James Katalikawe and Aaron Griffiths 4. Ghana: The Political Economy of 'Successful' Ethno-Regional Conflict Management - E. Gyimah-Boadi 5. The Politics of Institutional Design: An Overview of the Case of Sri Lanka - Radhika Coomaraswamy 6. Proportional Representation, Political Violence and the Participation of Women in the Political Process in Sri Lanka - Kishali Pinto Jayawardena 7. The Political Economy of Electoral Reform: Proportional Representation in Sri Lanka - Sunil Bastian 8. Electoral Engineering and the Politicization of Ethnic Frictions in Fiji - Jon Fraenkel 9. Building Democracy from the Outside: The Dayton Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Marcus Fox 10. Managing Ethnic Conflicts: Democratic Decentralization in Bosnia-Hercegovina - Vesna Bojicic 11. Conclusion: The Politics of Institutional Choice - Sunil Bastian and Robin LuckhamReviews'There are no single unequivocal answers to the question this volume addresses.Yet these highly informed original contributions on the politics of institutional design offer a wealth of insights into the kind of processes that have led to recent successes and failures on the democratization front.' - Martin Doornbos, Institute of Social Studies, the Hague 'There are no single unequivocal answers to the question this volume addresses.Yet these highly informed original contributions on the politics of institutional design offer a wealth of insights into the kind of processes that have led to recent successes and failures on the democratization front.' - Martin Doornbos, Institute of Social Studies, the Hague 'The title of this book neatly encapsulates its central question...It is really to the authors' credit, and to DfID's, that there is no attempt to avoid uncomfortable findings, let alone to base further simple prescriptions upon them. the book reinforces a message that cannot be repeated too often, it seems, which is the need to relate institutions and institutional innovation to its specific political context.' - Vicky Randall, University of Essex Author InformationSunil Bastian is Director of International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo. Robin Luckham was Research Associate at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, following early retirement. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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