TY - BOOK AU - Bachelard, Jérôme. TI - Governance Reform in Africa: international and domestic pressures and counter-pressures SN - 9780415713450 U1 - 320.967BAC PY - 2014/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Legitimacy of governments--Africa, Sub-Saharan N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-233) and index N2 - No study has sought to systematically examine the political forces, both international and domestic, behind the successful conduct of governance reform in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, coordination, collaboration and mutual support between international and domestic actors is critical to push individual governments onto the path of reform. This book shows that while international and domestic pro-reform pressures are important, an analysis of anti-reform pressures is also necessary to explain incomplete or failed reform ER -