African Politics In Comparative Perspective

Author : Goran Hyden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107030473

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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.

Author : Goran Hyden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139789899

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African Politics in Comparative Perspective by Goran Hyden Pdf

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.

Author : Goran Hyden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139448710

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African Politics in Comparative Perspective by Goran Hyden Pdf

This 2006 book reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa. It synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an interpretation of the knowledge accumulated over the years. It discusses how research on African politics relates to the study of politics in other regions. It focuses on such key issues as the legacy of a movement approach to political change, the nature of the state, the economy of a location, the policy deficit, the agrarian question, gender and politics and ethnicity and conflict. It ends by reviewing what scholars agree upon and what the accumulated knowledge offers as insights for more effective political and policy reforms. This book is for undergraduate and graduate courses in African and Comparative Politics as well as development-oriented courses in Political Science and related disciplines. It is also of great relevance to governance and development analysts and practitioners in international organizations.

Author : Goran Hyden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1139777017

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African Politics in Comparative Perspective. Gran Hydn by Goran Hyden Pdf

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.

Author : Goran Hyden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1139780050

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African Politics in Comparative Perspective by Goran Hyden Pdf

This expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa.

Author : Goran Hyden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052168532X

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African Politics in Comparative Perspective African Edition by Goran Hyden Pdf

Author : Michael Bratton,Nicolas Van de Walle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521556120

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Democratic Experiments in Africa by Michael Bratton,Nicolas Van de Walle Pdf

Appendix: The Data Set.

Author : Olusola Ogunnubi,Samuel Oyewole
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781527561946

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Power Politics in Africa by Olusola Ogunnubi,Samuel Oyewole Pdf

This collection of essays examines the subject of power politics in Africa, paying special attention to the interests of African regional powers, as well as their capabilities and strategies in the international arena. It provides a theoretical bridge between concerns for militarised national interest, perpetual distrust and insecurity, struggles for power and hegemony in power politics, and the spirit of pan-African solidarity, brotherhood, consensus, cooperation and integration. It is on these bases that this volume offers rich empirical insight into leading regional powers in Africa with special attention given to Nigeria and South Africa. It serves to contribute African perspectives to the field of International Relations, particularly regarding power politics, which is important in terms of Africanising the narratives of a subject matter that is largely considered as Eurocentric in African and other non-Western societies.

Author : Silvia Colombo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351169783

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Political and Institutional Transition in North Africa by Silvia Colombo Pdf

The year 2011 will go down in history as a turning point for the Arab world. The popular unrest that swept across the region and led to the toppling of the Ben Ali, Mubarak, and Qaddhafi regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya has fundamentally altered the social, economic, and political outlooks of these countries and the region as a whole. This book assesses the transition processes unleashed by the uprisings that took place in Egypt and Tunisia in 2011. The wave of unrest and popular mobilisation that swept through these countries is treated as the point of departure of long and complex processes of change, manipulation, restructuring, and entrenchment of the institutional structures and logics that defined politics. The book explores the constitutive elements of institutional development, namely processes of constitution making, electoral politics, the changing status and power of the judiciary, and the interplay between the civilian and the military apparatuses in Egypt and Tunisia. It also considers the extent to which these two countries have become more democratic, as a result of their institutions being more legitimate, accountable, and responsive, at the beginning of 2014 and from a comparative perspective. The impact of temporal factors in shaping transition paths is highlighted throughout the book. The book provides a comprehensive assessment of political and institutional transition processes in two key countries in North Africa and its conclusions shed light on similar processes that have taken place throughout the region since 2011. It will be a valuable resource for anyone studying Middle Eastern and North African politics, area studies, comparative institutional development and democratisation.

Author : Mark Beissinger,M. Crawford Young
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 193036508X

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Beyond State Crisis? by Mark Beissinger,M. Crawford Young Pdf

The contributors not only study state breakdown but compare the consequences of post-communism with those of post-colonialism.

Author : Crawford Young
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300068794

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The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective by Crawford Young Pdf

In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished specialist and scholar of African affairs argues that the current crisis in African development can be traced directly to European colonial rule, which left the continent with a "singularly difficult legacy" that is unique in modern history. Crawford Young proposes a new conception of the state, weighing the different characteristics of earlier European empires (including those of Holland, Portugal, England, and Venice) and distilling their common qualities. He then presents a concise and wide-ranging history of colonization in Africa, from the era of construction through consolidation and decolonization. Young argues that several qualities combined to make the European colonial experience in Africa distinctive. The high number of nations competing for power around the continent and the necessity to achieve effective occupation swiftly yet make the colonies self-financing drove colonial powers toward policies of "ruthless extractive action." The persistent, virulent racism that established a distance between rulers and subjects was especially central to African colonial history. Young concludes by turning his sights to other regions of the once-colonized world, comparing the fates of former African colonies to their counterparts elsewhere. In tracing both the overarching traits and variations in African colonial states, he makes a strong case that colonialism has played a critical role in shaping the fate of this troubled continent.

Author : Ted Gerard Jelen,Clyde Wilcox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781316582749

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Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective by Ted Gerard Jelen,Clyde Wilcox Pdf

Religion is resurgent across the globe. In many countries religion is a powerful source of political mobilization, and in some a potent social cleavage. In some religion reinforces the state, in others it provides the space for resistance. This book contains a series of detailed studies examining religion and politics in specific countries or regions. The cases include countries with one dominant religious tradition, and others with two or more competing traditions. They include Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Hinduism, Shinto and Buddhism. They include states where religion and politics are closely linked, and others with at least a low wall of separation between church and state. The cases are organized by the type of religious marketplace, but allow many other comparisons as well. We develop some generalizations from the cases, and hope that they will be a fertile source of theorizing for others.

Author : Goran Hyden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009429535

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Theorizing in Comparative Politics by Goran Hyden Pdf

This book addresses a pertinent issue in comparative politics: how can the discipline do analytical justice to regions of the world that differ historically from the Western experience? For decades the West has served as a baseline against which all other regions are assessed, most recently in studies of democratization. Structural differences between regions have been ignored in favour of explanations based on human agency and institutions. In Theorizing in Comparative Politics, Goran Hyden uses the countries of Africa as an empirical case to demonstrate what a structural approach adds to the comparative study of democracy. Priorities like state-building challenge the effort to shape democratic regimes and call for explanations that recognize the impact of local power dynamics on the prospects for democratic development. Informative and thoughtful, this book sheds light on issues that have been underexplored in the field in recent years.

Author : Ali A. Mazrui
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443858366

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African Thought in Comparative Perspective by Ali A. Mazrui Pdf

African Thought in Comparative Perspective showcases how adept Ali Mazrui, the most prolific writer on Africa today, is at using complex conceptual apparatuses to categorize and synthesize Africa’s political and social thought. This book, thus, offers an original interpretation of the knowledge that has been accumulated over the years, and which is of timeless relevance. It covers such themes as the legacy of the African liberation movements, the convergence and divergence of African, Islamic and Western thought, nationalist ideologies in Africa, the role of religion in African politics, and the impact of Ancient Greek philosophy on contemporary Africa.

Author : Yonatan T. Fessha,Karl Kössler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000042245

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Federalism and the Courts in Africa by Yonatan T. Fessha,Karl Kössler Pdf

This volume examines the design and impact of courts in African federal systems from a comparative perspective. Recent developments indicate that the previously stymied idea of federalism is now being revived in the constitutional arrangements of several African countries. A number of them jumped on the bandwagon of federalism in the early 1990s because it came to be seen as a means to facilitate development, to counter the concentration of power in a single governmental actor and to manage communal tensions. An important part of the move towards federalism is the establishment of courts that are empowered to umpire intergovernmental disputes. This edited volume brings together contributions that first discuss questions of design by focusing, in particular, on the organization of the judiciary and the appointment of judges in African federal systems. They then examine whether courts have had a rather centralizing or decentralizing impact on the operation of African federal systems. The book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers in the areas of comparative constitutional law and comparative politics.