NGOs, Africa and the Global Order

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Boxes, Tables and Figures......Page 8
P......Page 9
W......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 14
Why Africa? Why NGOs?......Page 15
The transformation of politics and the rise of NGOs......Page 17
Matters arising......Page 22
The individual chapters......Page 23
2 From Mass Society to Post-Industrial Society and from Authoritarianism to Pluralism: The Context of the Rise of NGOs......Page 31
Explaining the rise of NGOs: the old order crumbles......Page 33
Explaining the rise of NGOs: the economy, the environment, society and the polity......Page 38
The view from Africa......Page 43
The rise of NGOs in Ghana......Page 45
The rise of NGOs in Tanzania......Page 47
The Washington consensus and other prescriptions......Page 50
The opportunities and the constraints......Page 56
Conclusion......Page 60
3 A Third Sector or a Second Preference? What is Distinctive about NGOs?......Page 62
The virtuous model......Page 64
The functional model......Page 66
Administrative constraints......Page 68
Political constraints......Page 73
The global context......Page 80
Conclusion......Page 84
4 Democracy Without Votes I: The Background to NGOs in Tanzania and Uganda......Page 88
Tanzania and Uganda: a brief profile......Page 93
The nature of civil society......Page 102
The nature of NGOs in Tanzania and Uganda......Page 114
Governmental perspectives on NGOs......Page 123
NGOs and external influence......Page 128
Conclusion......Page 132
6 NGOs and the Global Order: Theory and Practice......Page 139
IGOs and the concept of globalisation......Page 140
Global civil society: myth, reality or a question of definition......Page 143
The nature of global power......Page 149
1. Power politics......Page 151
2. Global democracy......Page 152
3. Global governance......Page 154
5. Global technocracy......Page 156
6. Global anarchy......Page 157
The models and the real world......Page 158
Conclusion......Page 165
7 International NGOs: Missionaries or Imperialists?......Page 170
Imperialism, paternalism and emancipation: the diversity of ideologies......Page 171
Responsibility without power: the problems of legitimacy......Page 177
Who controls whom? Autonomy and dependency......Page 183
The routes to political influence......Page 186
Conclusion......Page 193
8 The Winning and the Taking Part: The Global Game of NGO Influence......Page 197
The global context (1): the changing agenda......Page 198
The global context (2): the response of NGOs......Page 203
Horses for courses, and fighting on broad and narrow fronts......Page 208
Conclusion......Page 213
9 Conclusion......Page 216
The emergence of NGOs......Page 217
The distinctiveness of NGOs......Page 218
Political opportunities and constraints......Page 222
NGOs and the nature of contemporary politics......Page 226
Bibliography......Page 231
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