Name: Political Topographies of the African State
ISBN: 9780521532648

Political Topographies of the African State

作者: Catherine Boone
出版社: Cambridge University Press
副标题: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice
出版年: 2003-12
页数: 422
定价: USD 40.99
装帧: Paperback
丛书: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
ISBN: 9780521532648

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内容简介 · · · · · ·

This study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge: institutional linkages and political deals that bind center and periphery are the solutions. In African countries, as in territorially diverse states around the world, rulers at the center are forced to bargain with regional elites to estab...

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目录 · · · · · ·

1. Introduction; 2. Mapping institutional topography; 3.1 Uneven institutional topography within one state; 3.2 Powersharing in Senegal's groundnut basin; 3.3 Administrative occupation in Casamance; 3.4 Conclusion; 4.1 Taxing rich peasants: ideology as strategy; 4.2 Usurping 'rightful rulers': Asante; 4.3 'Local powers do not exist': southern Cote d'Ivoire; 4.4 Conclusion; 5.1 The geopolitics of late development; 5.2 Path switching in northern Cote d'Ivoire; 5.3 Path switching in the Senegal River Valley; 5.4 Conclusion: why institutional strategies change; 6. Conclusion.

丛书信息 · · · · · ·

　　Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics(共165册)，这套丛书还有《Immigration and Conflict in Europe》《Legislative Voting and Accountability》《Skeletons in the Closet》《Making Race and Nation》《Citizens and Community》等。