The paradox of traditional chiefs in democratic Africa
By: Kate Baldwin, Yale University
Series: Cambridge studies in comparative politics; Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781107127333; 9781107566446
Subjects: Democratization; Chiefdoms; Central-local government relations; Local government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section 1.; title: Toward a new theory of chiefs.; title: The paradox of chiefs --; title: Conceptualizing chiefs --; title: Traditional leaders and democracy -- -- Section 2.; title: Chiefs, development and elections in Zambia.; title: Introduction to Zambia --; title: Chiefs and local public goods provision --; title: Electoral king makers --; title: Chiefs and the voter's calculus. -- -- Section 3.; title: Traditional leaders in Africa and beyond.; title: Chiefs and government responsiveness across Africa --; title: Development brokers revisited. -- Appendix A.; title: Construction of cross-national measures of chief's power -- -- Appendix B.; title: List of interviews and interview protocols -- -- Appendix C.; title: Data set on local public goods provision and absent chiefs -- -- Appendix D.; title: Survey of chiefs and chiefdom level data set -- -- Appendix E.; title: Household survey and experiment.; title: Chiefs as development brokers.