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Politics and society in contemporary Africa /

0333578147 (U.K.)

1555872832 (pbk.)

9780333578148 (U.K.)

9781555872830 (pbk.)

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Politics and society in contemporary Africa /

[Book]

Naomi Chazan ... [et al.].

2nd ed.

Boulder, Colo. :

L. Rienner Publishers,

c1992.

xii, 483 p. :

maps ;

23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Diversity of African Politics: Trends and Approaches -- Independent Africa: Trends and Patterns -- Approaches to the Study of African Politics -- Political Interaction Framework -- Pt. I. Structures of Politics -- 2. State Institutions and the Organization of the Public Arena -- Concept of the State in Africa -- Structural Foundations of African States: The Colonial Legacy -- Constructions of the Public Arena Since Independence -- States and State Variety in Africa: Some Implications -- 3. Social Groupings -- Social Groups and Social Process -- Organization of Social Life -- Social-Networks and Social Trends -- 4. Ethnicity, Class, and the State -- Ethnicity and Ethnic Group -- Ethnic Intermediary's Critical Role -- African Class Cleavages and Social Conflicts -- Class and Ethnicity as Situational Variables -- Pt. 2. Political Process and Political Change -- 5. Regimes in Independent Africa -- Regime Evolution in Postcolonial Africa -- Regime Types and Their Variations -- Regime Types and Political Process -- 6. High Politics: The Procedures and Practices of Government -- Politics of the Center: Decisionmaking and the Rules of the Political Game -- Politics of Social Relations -- Center Consolidation and Maintenance: Some Trends -- 7. Deep Politics: Political Response, Protest, and Conflict -- Elite Conflicts -- Factional Conflicts -- Communal Conflicts -- Mass Conflicts -- Popular Conflicts -- Interplay of Political Conflicts -- 8. Political Transitions and Patterns of Change -- Modes of Political Change -- Patterns of Political Interaction -- Pt. 3. Political Economy -- 9. Political Economy: Policy Choices in a Constraining Environment -- African Economies in Historical Perspective -- Sectoral Policies in the Postindependence Period -- Popular Strategies for Economic Survival. Conclusion: An Overextended State? -- 10. Africa and the World Economy --

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Politics and society in contemporary Africa.

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Africa, Foreign relations.

Africa, Politics and government, 1960-

Africa, Social conditions, 1960-

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