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Political Parties and Governance for Development Chapter 1 Introduction 2 Operational Definition of Key Terms 4 - Governance 5 - Good Governance 7 - Development 10 - Perspective on Political Parties 14 Chapter2 The Post Political Parties Scenario: Major Barriers to Effective Performance of Political Parties 19 - Political Parties as a Process Towards Political Maturity 21 - From Pressure Groups to Political Parties 25 - Executive Interference 29 - Lack of Political Will 31 - Party Strength: Funding and Electoral Criterion 37 - Personification of Political Parties 41 - Understanding Merger of Political Parties 50 - Political Parties as Agents of Change: Inadequate Institutional Set-Up 54 - Intra-Party Conflict 58 - Ethnicity, Separatism and Regionalism 60 - Why Non Governmental Organisations? 65 Chapter3 Civil Society in Governance and Development Background 69 Introduction 69 Conceptualizing Civil Society 70 Formal and Informal Civil Society 73 State and Civil Society: Co-operation or Conflict 74 Chapter 4 Factors Promoting the Resurgence of Civil Societies in Governance in the East African Countries. 78 Chapter 5 Uganda 84 - The Case of Women Association in Uganda 92 Tanzania 94 - Reasons for the Emergence of Civil Society 96 Kenya 100 - In Search of Prerequisite for the Civil Society 109 - Challenges of the Civil Society in Governance 111 - Civil Society and Development 116 Chapter 6 Development and Governance Dilemma 128 Chapter 7 Conclusion 134 Bibliography 139 Index 150Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Political parties Africa, East, Civil society Africa, East, Democratization Africa, East, Political culture Africa, East, Africa, East Politics and government, Africa, East Economic conditions