Democracy, Liberty and Montesquieu: Constructing Accountable Order in African Conflict States

Without appropriate institutional checks multiparty democracy can rekindle violent conflicts rather than help to resolve them. The absolutism of ‘imperial presidents’ is at the root of many of Africa's civil wars and the restoration of this institution in post?conflict states will not help them find security for their citizens. Following Montesquieu, I argue that ‘liberty’, in the form of checks on executive power, must accompany or precede multiparty democracy in post?conflict reconstruction

Rethinking the Relationship between Neo?patrimonialism and Economic Development in Africa

Is it possible to work with the grain of neo?patrimonial politics to boost investment and growth in Africa? Current donor orthodoxy is that neo?patrimonialism is irredeemably bad for economic development, but evidence from other regions, together with a re?examination of the African record itself, suggests that this may not be true. We present evidence from case studies of Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, Malawi and Rwanda to show that provided mechanisms can be found to centralise economic rents and manage them with a view to the long term, neo?patrimonialism can be harnessed for developmental ends

EUGENICS, IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION AND THE BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENTS(Chapt.- 16)

This chapter is one of 29 essays that discusses how academics, then and now, have addressed the political, economic, diplomatic, cultural, ethnic, and social history of the presidents of the Republican Era of 1921-1933 - Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. The eugenics, birth control and immigration restriction movements, discussed in this chapter, were intertwined. The complete book is available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118834510Other PUBLICATIONS and PAPERS on origins of drinking patterns and attitudes in western Europe from antiquity and the influence of the Roman Empire, its continued influence on modern society including American Prohibition and temperance cycles, alcohol control policies, attitudes and beverage preferences due to religion, climate, and European homeland can be found at the following IUScholarWorks links: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17129/browse?type=title; https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17132/browse?type=title; https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/17136/browse?type=title; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17452; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17143; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17139; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17145; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17148; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17149; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17484; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17485; http://hdl.handle.net/2022/17590Agitation for eugenics, immigration restriction, and birth control were intertwined during the first decades of the twentieth century along with numerous other health issues. Campaigns for these causes led to public policies in an effort to improve the physical, mental and social health of the nation. However, these issues were not considered of historical interest until the post-World War II era. Eugenics and the leaders of the eugenics movement were often discredited by late twentieth-century historians as elitists or racists, while early immigration restriction laws and nativism gained renewed interest, and birth control and its early leaders such as Margaret Sanger were both eulogized and demonized. Contested interpretations of all three of these reform movements and their leaders have been found since the 1950s

Diana and Actaeon: The Myth as Synthesis

The myth of Actaeon offers a structure in which artists can express complex combinations of ideas. Ovid's Actaeon is a victim of the gods but also a visionary and a prototype of the self-conscious man, while other ancient sources see him as a dangerous lover. Medieval mythographers including Dante added interpretations involving the limits of power and the dangers of prodigality, until in the Lusiads and Cynthia's Reveh the myth could embody tensions between politics and love. Petrarch uses Actaeon's metamorphosis as part of a spiritual autobiography, and Petrarchan lovers all the way to Shakespeare's Orsino remain under this influence. Christianizers like the poet of the Ovide Moralisé and Platonists like Bruno see the story in visionary terms. All these significations cluster together in two Renaissance masterpieces: Titian's Diana Surprised by Actaeon, where carnal voyeurism is combined with Platonic contemplation, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which the meeting of Bottom and Titania affirms that in the world of syncretic comedy forbidden visions need not always be forbidden