Beyond Impunity New Directions for Governance in Malawi
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Mzuzu, Malawi :
Mzuni Press
[2022]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009799928706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copyright page
- Title page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Pivotal Moment for Governance in Malawi?
- International Significance of Malawi's Constitutional Court Ruling
- Enduring Issues of Concern
- Genesis of the Book
- Organisation of the Book
- Significance of the Book
- Conclusion
- Chapter 1 - A Decade of Governance as "Roving Banditry" The Political Economy of Public Finance Mismanagement in Malawi, 2010 -2020
- Introduction: Setting the Context
- Analytical and Methodological Framework
- Institutional Political Economy Analysis
- State of Public Finance Mismanagement and its Developmental Cost
- Illustrating the Development Cost of Public Finance Mismanagement
- Public Finance Management Chain and Attendant Accountability Mechanisms
- Revenue Collection
- Allocation of Public Finances
- Oversight for Expenditure of Public Funds
- A PEA Explanation of Persistent Public Finance Mismanagement
- Interests, Capture and Repurposing of the State
- Appointive Bureaucracies and their Roles in Public Finance Mismanagement
- Weak Social Accountability Mechanisms for Public Finance Management
- Conclusion and Recommendations
- Chapter 2 - Two Decades of Governance in Malawi: Examining Citizen Trust in Malawi from 1999-2019
- Introduction
- The Concept and Governance Consequences of Political Trust
- Good Governance in Africa
- A Brief Background to Governance in Malawi
- General Trends of Trust in Presidents, Parliament, Police and Courts from 1999 to 2019
- Possible Explanatory Factors
- Consequences of (Loss of) Citizenry Trust: Implications on State Legitimacy and Prospects for Democracy
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 - Trust in Election Management Bodies, Participation in Demonstrations and Willingness to Pay Taxes: Evidence from Malawi.
- Introduction
- Related Literature
- Demonstrations during Malawi's Democratic Dispensation
- Data and Variable Definitions
- Estimation strategy
- Empirical Findings
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4 - Impunity versus Constitutional Legality in Malawi's 2019-20 Presidential Election Case
- Introduction
- The Stand against Impunity and Mediocrity
- The Conceptual Stand for Constitutional Legality
- The Stand for Transformational Constitutional Legality
- The Approach in the Proceedings
- Expedition versus Attempts to End or Delay the Case
- Conventional Burden and Standard of Proof versus Accountability
- Self Interest v Duty-based Civic and Ethical Professionalism
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 - Legal Responses to Electoral Violence and Democratic Governance in Malawi: The Case of the 2019 and 2020 Elections
- Introduction
- Electoral Violence and Democratic Governance
- Violence in the 2019 and 2020 Elections
- Legal Responses to Election Violence 2019-2020
- Legal Responses and Democratic Governance
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6 - Violence against Women in Elections in Malawi: The Role of Women Leaders as Game Changers
- Introduction
- Violence against Women in Elections (VAWE)
- Game-Changers
- Survey of Incidents of Violence against Women in the 2019 Elections
- Analysis of Responses of Women Leaders to VAWE in the 2019 Elections
- Pre-election and During Election Violence Response
- Women Leaders' Post-election Violence Response Analysis
- Game-Changers
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7 - Malawi's Choice of Electoral System and Reform Agenda Quandary
- Introduction
- Literature Survey
- Rationale for Electoral Choice in Malawi
- Effects of Plurality Electoral System on Regime Legitimacy in Malawi
- The Rationale for Electoral Reforms in Malawi
- Drivers of Electoral Reforms in Malawi
- Prospects for Electoral Reforms.
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8 - Awona Nyekhwe: The Fate of Opposition in Multiparty Malawi (1994-2020)
- Introduction
- The Concept of Nyekhwe
- Collective Political Memory
- The Concept of "Opposition"
- Opposition Parties and Politicians 1994-2020
- Non-Party Actors
- The Academic Freedom Debate
- The DPP System, State Capture, and its Dislodgement
- A Promising Nyekhwe-Free Future?
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9 - Guarding the Guardians: Auditing Security Sector Governance in Malawi
- Introduction
- Overview of the National Security Policy
- Auditing the Security Sector in Malawi
- The Challenge of Policing Protests
- Whither Professionalism of the Police
- Loopholes in Migration Management Laws
- Politicisation of the National Intelligence Services
- The Question of Upholding Constitutional Order
- The Challenges of Democratic Control of the Security Sector
- Towards a Holistic Implementation of the NSP
- Chapter 10 - Executive Supremacy and the Armed Forces: A Case Study of Public Finance Management in Malawi
- Introduction
- Good Governance and Public Finance Management
- Institutional Framework for Security Governance and Financial Oversight in the Armed Forces
- The Historical Context of Public Finance Management in the Armed Forces
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11 - 50-50 Campaigns: Lessons from 10 Years of Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Representation in Parliament
- Introduction
- The Theory of Women's Political Representation
- The Legal and Policy Framework Guiding Women Representation in Malawi
- Trends in Women's Political Representation and the Genesis of the 50-50 Campaign
- Main Actors in the 50-50 Campaigns and their Strategies
- Impact of Parity Funding Campaigns on Descriptive Representation of Women in Parliament in Malawi
- Conclusion.
- Chapter 12 - Ethnicity, Regionalism, and Nation-Building Challenges in Post-1994 Malawi: Whither a Federal State System?
- Introduction
- Nation-building in Multi-Ethnic Societies
- The Call for Federalism
- The False Prospects of Federalism
- Conclusion
- Chapter 13 - Rights Without Responsibility: Governance Crisis in the Management of Natural Resources in Malawi
- Introduction
- The Environmental Crisis as a Governance Issue
- Governance Crisis in a Democratic Era
- The Relevance of Historical Experience
- Suggestions for Addressing the Crisis
- Conclusion
- Chapter 14 - Pandemics, Politics and Governance: Contestations over State Management of Covid-19 in Malawi
- Introduction
- Pandemics and Governance in History
- Covid-19 and Earlier Government Responses
- Contesting Covid-19 Preventive Measures
- Conclusion
- Chapter 15 - Malawi's Governance Crisis in Theological Perspective: A Tale of Two Cultures
- A 25-Year Retrospect
- A Question of Political Culture
- The Biblical Text
- Global Theological Thinking
- Local Contextual Theology
- Malawi in Crisis 2019-20: Theological Perspectives
- A Tale of Two Cultures
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover.
