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Separation of powers in African constitutionalism /

The effective division of powers is critical to ensuring the promotion of good governance, democracy, and the rule of law in Africa. This book examines key issues arising during reforms of African constitutions, and focuses on the emergence of independent constitutional institutions providing checks...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fombad, Charles Manga (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Stellenbosch handbooks in African constitutional law ; 1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / James Fowkes and Charles M. Fombad
  • The evolution of modern African Constitutions : a retrospective perspective / Charles M. Fombad
  • An overview of separation of powers under modern African Constitutions / Charles M. Fombad
  • Parliamentary sovereignty of presidential imperialism? The difficulties in identifying the source of Constitutional power from the interaction between legislatures and executives in Anglophone Africa / Francois Venter
  • Kenya's budding bicameralism and legislative-executive relations / Conrad M. Bosire
  • Legislative-executive relations in presidential democracies : the case of Nigeria / Sylvester Shikyil
  • An overview of judicial and executive relations in Lusophone Africa / Fernando Loureiro Bastos
  • Super-presidentialism in Angola and the Angolan judiciary / Andre Thomashausen
  • Relationships with power : re-imagining judicial roles in Africa / James Fowkes
  • Defying assumptions about the nature of power relations between the executive and judiciary : an overview of approaches to judicial and executive relations in Ghana / Kofi Quashigah
  • Judicial-executive relations in Nigeria's constitutional development : clear patterns or confusing signals? / Ameze Guobadia
  • Relations between the legislature and the judiciary in Ethiopia / Assefa Fiseha
  • Judicial-executive relations in Kenya post-2010 : the emergence of judicial supremacy? / Walter Khobe Ochieng
  • An overview of the diverse approaches to judicial and executive relations : a Namibian study of four cases / Nico Horn
  • The role of emerging hybrid institutions of accountability in the separation of powers scheme in Africa / Charles M. Fombad
  • The public prosecutor and the rule of law in Anglophone Africa / Jeffrey Jowell
  • Separation of powers and the position of the public prosecutor in Francophone Africa / Horace Adjolohoun and Charles M. Fombad
  • Constitutional legitimacy and the separation of powers : looking forward / Michaela Hailbronner.