African politics
Subtitle: critical and primary sources
By: edited by Kevin Dunn
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781628924602; 9781628925050; 9781628925067; 9781628925074; 9781628927306
Subjects: Politics and government; Political culture; Political stability; Economic conditions
Work titles: African politics (Bloomsbury Academic)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Volume 1 -- Part I: Pre-colonial and colonial legacies; title: Introduction  -- Kevin Dunn; title: The pre-colonial legacy --; title: The internal African frontier: the making of African political culture  -- Igor Kopytoff; title: The colonial legacy --; title: The invention of tradition in colonial Africa  -- Terrence Ranger; title: Colonialism and the two publics in Africa: a theoretical statement  -- Peter Ekeh; title: On the size and shape of African states  -- Elliott Green -- Part II: Identity and politics; title: Introduction / Kevin Dunn --; title: Ethnicity --; title: Explaining ethnic political participation  -- Nelson Kasfir; title: The political salience of cultural difference: why Chewas and Tumbukas are allies in Zambia and adversaries in Malawi  -- Daniel Posner; title: Social class --; title: The nature of class domination in Africa  -- Richard L. Sklar; title: Class formation in the swollen African state  -- Larry Diamond; title: Gender --; title: Introduction to African feminism  -- Gwendolyn Mikell; title: Religion --; title: Africa and Christianity on the threshold of the third millennium: the religious dimension  -- Kwame Bediako; title: Men and devils  -- Stephen Ellis; title: Nationalism and Pan-Africanism --; title: The rise of African nationalism: the case of east and central Africa  -- Robert Rotberg; title: I am an African  -- Thabo Mbeki -- Volume 2 -- Part III: The practice of power; title: Introduction  -- Kevin Dunn; title: The post-colonial state --; title: Provisional notes on the postcolony  -- Achille Mbembe; title: The recurrent crises of the gatekeeper state  -- Frederick Cooper; title: Patronage, clientalism and neopatrimonialism --; title: Clientelism and prebendal politics  -- Richard Joseph; title: It's our time to "chop": do elections in Africa feed neo-patrimonialism rather than counteract it?  -- Staffan Lindberg; title: Rethinking patrimonialism and neopatrimonialism in Africa  -- Anne Pitcher, Mary Moran, and Michael Johnston; title: Society --; title: Beyond the state: civil society and associational life in Africa  -- Michael Bratton; title: Civil society and public sphere: the new stakeholders ; title: Célestin Monga --; title: Political regimes: authoritarianism to democracy --; title: Personal rule: theory and practice in Africa  -- Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg; title: Explaining democratic transitions  -- Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle; title: Representations of power  -- Michael Schatzberg; title: The distinctive political logic of weak states  -- William Reno; title: Museveni's Uganda in comparative context  -- Aili Mari Tripp -- Volume 3 -- Part IV: The political economy of stagnation and development; title: Introduction  -- Kevin Dunn; title: Historical factors --; title: Underdevelopment and dependence in Black Africa: origins and contemporary forms  -- Samir Amin; title: Structural factors --; title: Resource wealth and political regimes in Africa  -- Nathan Jensen and Leonard Wantchekon; title: Societal factors --; title: The state and economic stagnation in tropical Africa  -- Richard Sandbrook; title: Aid, adjustment and international financial institutions --; title: The structural adjustment of politics in Africa  -- Jeffrey Herbst; title: Aid and sovereignty: quasi-states and the international financial institutions  -- David Williams; title: Debt and aid: righting the incentives  -- David Leonard and Scott Straus; title: Renaissance and renewal? --; title: How to rebuild Africa  -- Stephen Ellis; title: New African initiative  -- Henning Melber -- Volume 4 -- Part V: Conflict and security; title: Introduction  -- Kevin Dunn; title: Evolving warfare  -- William Reno; title: War and the state in Africa  -- Jeffrey Herbst; title: African guerrilla politics: raging against the machine?  -- Morten Bøås and Kevin Dunn; title: How "new" are "new wars?" Global economic change and the study of civil war  -- Mats Berdal; title: Bigmanity and network governance in African conflicts  -- Mats Utas -- Part VI: African international relations; title: Introduction  -- Kevin Dunn; title: Understanding Africa's place in world politics  -- Ian Taylor and Paul Williams; title: Why Africa's weak states persist: the empirical and the juridical in statehood  -- Robert Jackson and Carl Rosberg; title: Globalizing Africa? Observations from an inconvenient continent -- James Ferguson.