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... Ouedraogo, L'Institut Supérieur des Sciences et de la Population (Burkina Faso);... more ... Ouedraogo, L'Institut Supérieur des Sciences et de la Population (Burkina Faso); Kofi Awusabo-Asare and Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme ... This monograph greatly benefited from the careful reading and feedback given by the following reviewers: Frederick Mugisha, Economic Policy ...
copyedited by Susan London, independent consultant.
Uganda does not have a constitution; it has a career-distributing patronage device disguised as o... more Uganda does not have a constitution; it has a career-distributing patronage device disguised as one. This device serves the important function of immunising the presidency from serious challenges from what was historically a very cantankerous and militant middle class. Instead, this class has been tranquilised by all the jobs, careers and postings created by the 1995 document. The just-concluded proceedings in Uganda's Supreme Court-in which a petition against the 2018 passing of a law that removed the constitutional requirement for a presidential candidate to be below 75 years was heard and dismissed-is the latest proof that the constitution was never going to deliver constitutionalism, nor was it designed for that purpose. The petition was in itself an appeal against the same ruling made by the Constitutional Court the previous year. That first petition was itself borne out of the very unconstitutional manner in which the Ugandan Parliament had passed the amendment. First-and not for the first time-there were obvious material inducements offered to the parliamentarians before their decision. Second-and more critically-the supposed sanctity of Parliament was violated through an invasion by Uganda's Special Forces Command, who proceeded to violently carry out the core group of MPs opposed to
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... Ouedraogo, L'Institut Supérieur des Sciences et de la Population (Burkina Faso);... more ... Ouedraogo, L'Institut Supérieur des Sciences et de la Population (Burkina Faso); Kofi Awusabo-Asare and Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme ... This monograph greatly benefited from the careful reading and feedback given by the following reviewers: Frederick Mugisha, Economic Policy ...
copyedited by Susan London, independent consultant.
Uganda does not have a constitution; it has a career-distributing patronage device disguised as o... more Uganda does not have a constitution; it has a career-distributing patronage device disguised as one. This device serves the important function of immunising the presidency from serious challenges from what was historically a very cantankerous and militant middle class. Instead, this class has been tranquilised by all the jobs, careers and postings created by the 1995 document. The just-concluded proceedings in Uganda's Supreme Court-in which a petition against the 2018 passing of a law that removed the constitutional requirement for a presidential candidate to be below 75 years was heard and dismissed-is the latest proof that the constitution was never going to deliver constitutionalism, nor was it designed for that purpose. The petition was in itself an appeal against the same ruling made by the Constitutional Court the previous year. That first petition was itself borne out of the very unconstitutional manner in which the Ugandan Parliament had passed the amendment. First-and not for the first time-there were obvious material inducements offered to the parliamentarians before their decision. Second-and more critically-the supposed sanctity of Parliament was violated through an invasion by Uganda's Special Forces Command, who proceeded to violently carry out the core group of MPs opposed to