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

Other author Hagmann, Tobias.
Other author Reyntjens, Filip.
Other author Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoUppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet ; London, UK : Zed Books Ltd, [2016]
Description186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesAfrica now
Africa now (Zed Books) ^A1143809
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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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