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Title Judiciary and Good Governance in Contemporary Tanzania: Problems and Prospects
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/10202/350
Date 1995
Author(s) Bukurura, Sufian Hemed
Abstract The World Bank identified judiciary among institutions which ran down during centralized governance. The Bank also expressed the need for and willingness to take part in rebuilding these institutions so that they could effectively regulate competing political and economic interests during political pluralism and the free market systems, preserve the rule of law and protect human rights. This study traces the changing role of the judiciary in Tanzania (from being marginal for more than twenty years to becoming central during political pluralism and market economy) and characterizes what has been done by the judiciary as damage limitation. The study notes that in order for these reform initiatives to be effective, public indignation with law and legal institutions need to be recognised and addressed. Such comprehension calls for constructive public participation in legal reform. Sufian Hemed Bukurura (horn 1956) is Lecturer in Law at the Institute of Development Management (IDM) at Mzumbe, Morogoro (Tanzania). He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge (England) in February 1994 with a dissertation on local governance and the maintenance of order in rural Tanzania. In May and June 1995 he was a visiting research fellow at Chr. Michelsen Institute. His research interests include: local governance, informal justice mechanisms and public participation in justice administration.
Subject(s) Legal institutions; Judicial system; Good governance; Tanzania
Language en
Publisher Chr. Michelsen Institute
Relation CMI Report; R 1995: 3
Type of publication CMI Report
Identifier 0805-505X
Repository Bergen - Christian Michelsen Institute
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