Essays about: "colonial elite"

Showing result 11 - 13 of 13 essays containing the words colonial elite.

  1. 11. Perceiving the Burundi social crisis : a matter of ethnic interests or conflict over natural resources

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Pierre-Claver Nkundwanabake; [2009]
    Keywords : Ethnic conflict; Conflict over natural resources; poverty; Governance; policies;

    Abstract : The ethnic conflict of Burundi has deep historical and social roots. In the pre-colonial period, Burundi was a hierarchical society, but the interdependence of the political and social system gave coherence and social strength. READ MORE

  2. 12. Class Actors in Two Kenyan Transitions -Democracy, redress and distribution policy in a post-authoritarian state

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Mia Olsson; [2007]
    Keywords : Kenya; comparative; democracy; transition; colonialism; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This essay is a comparative study the role of class actors in Kenya's independence movement and democratic transition in 2002. The concept of social class in an African context is explored in order to develop Berins Collier's theory of working class and elite actors in democratic transition. READ MORE

  3. 13. Foreign aid : an elite survey

    University essay from IHH, Statsvetenskap

    Author : Martin Salmonsson; [2007]
    Keywords : political science;

    Abstract : The inability of foreign aid to generate an appropriate model for development and the complexities related to Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the “Third World” are what initiated my interest to write about foreign aid. In this study I seek to further elabo-rate on this complex issue on foreign aid; does it lead to development or dependency? Within the debate, the controversy exists around aid dependency and economic growth and is fuelled by the fact that Sub-Saharan Africa has barely achieved any poverty reduction since the 1960´s. READ MORE