Property and political order in Africa : land rights and the structure of politics /
Boone, Catherine.
New York : Cambridge University Press,
2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : property regimes and land conflict : seeing institutions and their effects -- Land tenure regimes and political order in rural Africa -- Rising competition for land : redistribution and its varied political effects -- Ethnic strangers as second-class citizens. Ethnic heterogeneity in western Burkina Faso ; Expulsion of aliens from Ghana's cocoa region ; Land tensions in western Ghana -- Ethnic strangers as protected clients of the state. Southwestern Côte d'Ivoire : strangers imposed "by force!" ; Kenya's Rift Valley settlers ; "Forced cohabitation" in eastern DRC -- Land conflict at the micro-scale : family. Western Kenya : Kisii -- The local state as arena of redistributive conflict : chieftaincy. Northern Cameroon : states within the state ; Conflict repressed within chieftaincies : periurban Kumasi, Ghana ;  Land conflict at the national scale. Rwanda -- Winning and losing politically-allocated land rights : property conflict in the elctoral arena. Kenya, 1991-2010 ; Côte d'Ivoire, 1990-2010 ; Rwanda, 1991-1994 ; Eastern DRC, 1990-1994 -- Zimbabwe in comparative perspective. Elections and expropriations, 2000-2010 -- Conclusion : property regimes in political explanation. Property regimes and comparative politics ; Economic institutions and democracy -- Patrimonialism vs. bargained institutions -- Ethnicity as an institutional effect -- Ethnicity and class politics entwined -- Scale effects in political explanation -- Elections and civil war -- Appendix: Land politics cases and sources.
Land tenure
Land use, Rural
Land use
Central-local government relations
Ethnicity
Ethnic conflict