African politics in comparative perspective

by Hyden, Goran

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Full title :African politics in comparative perspective / Goran Hyden.

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"This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated in the field. Goran Hyden discusses how research on African politics relates to the study of politics in other regions and mainstream theories in comparative politics. He focuses on such key issues as why politics trumps economics, rule is personal, state is weak and policies are made with a communal rather than an individual lens. The book also discusses why in the light of these conditions agriculture is problematic, gender contested, ethnicity manipulated and relations with Western powers a matter of defiance"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

Description:1 ressource en ligne (viii, 316 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781139777018, 1139777017, 1139783041, 9781139783040
oclc:on1104455173
LC Classification:JA84.A33
Dewey Decimal:320.3096

1. The study of politics and Africa -- 2. The supremacy of politics -- 3. The problematic state -- 4. The economy of affection -- 5. Big man rule -- 6. The policy paradox -- 7. The agrarian question -- 8. The gender issue -- 9. The ethnic factor -- 10. The external dimension -- 11. What we know and how -- 12. Quo vadis Africa?

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