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Postcolonial Legality: Law, Power and Politics in Zambia
This book interrogates the ideology and practices of liberal constitutionalism in the Zambian postcolony. It focuses on the residual political and governmental effects of an Imperial form of power, embodied in the person of the Republican President, termed here Prerogativism, and examines how this has shaped the postcolonial political landscape.
| Author(s) | By Jeremy Gould (University of Helsinki). |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 324 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 24 Mar 2023 |
| Availability | POD |
This book interrogates the ideology and practices of liberal constitutionalism in the Zambian postcolony. It focuses on the residual political and governmental effects of an Imperial form of power, embodied in the person of the Republican President, termed here Prerogativism, and examines how this has shaped the postcolonial political landscape.
Foreword I Preliminary issues 1 Problems and paradoxes Problems Sources and resources Paradoxes Politico-legal paradoxes Paradoxes of liberalism Presidential paradoxes Paradoxes of constitutionalism 2 Unthinking
Jeremy Gould is Professor of Development and International Cooperation, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. Professor Gould's research interests revolve around the socio-legal dynamics of post-colonial state formation. He has published widely on this and re
