Disciplining Democracy

by Rita Abrahamsen

Book Overview

This thought-provoking book does not simply link the West's good governance agenda with the demise of the Soviet Union. Abrahamsen shows that this democratic agenda involves little more than superficial institutional reforms. The West's primary goal in developing countries remains the enforcement of structural adjustment. African governments, in particular, remain in a double bind, nominally responsible to their electorates at home, but also beholden...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185649859X
• ISBN13: 9781856498593
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"