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Written by today's most influential African scholars, this collection of pathbreaking articles covers a variety of topics including political leadership, forms of state power, the role of civil society, the importance of class, ethnicity, and gender, and the prospects for democratic change in the region. The book provides a broad historical perspective on Africa's political economic development and an overview of current problems and prospects .
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Written by today's most influential African scholars, this collection of pathbreaking articles covers a variety of topics including political leadership, forms of state power, the role of civil society, the importance of class, ethnicity, and gender, and the prospects for democratic change in the region. The book provides a broad historical perspective on Africa's political economic development and an overview of current problems and prospects .
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Peter Lewis teaches in the School of International Services at American University.
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Personal rule has been a compelling facet of politics at least since the time of Machiavelli. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
local private accumulation, primordial public, import strangulation, associational arena, managerial bourgeoisie, regime variants, rentier activities, neopatrimonial regimes, neopatrimonial rule, associational realm, adjustment with growth, capitalist strata, personal regimes, prebendal politics, personal dictators, sovereign national conference, civic public, bureaucratic bourgeoisie, clientelist politics, state bourgeoisie Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Personal rule has been a compelling facet of politics at least since the time of Machiavelli. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
local private accumulation, primordial public, import strangulation, associational arena, managerial bourgeoisie, regime variants, rentier activities, neopatrimonial regimes, neopatrimonial rule, associational realm, adjustment with growth, capitalist strata, personal regimes, prebendal politics, personal dictators, sovereign national conference, civic public, bureaucratic bourgeoisie, clientelist politics, state bourgeoisie Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World Bank, New York, Latin America, South Africa, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, Los Angeles, Ivory Coast, Donald Rothchild, Michael Bratton, West Africa, Naomi Chazan, Princeton University Press, Sierra Leone, World Politics, New Haven, Cruise O'Brien, Eastern Europe, Lynne Rienner Publishers, United Nations, United States, Larry Diamond, Sékou Touré, Westview Press, Accelerated Development New!
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- Political Parties and National Integration in Tropic by J. S. Coleman on page 157, page 181, and page 257
- Washington, D.C by Gerald on page 424, page 425, and page 428
- West African States: Failure and Promise: A Study in Comparative Politics (African Studies) by John Dunn on page 134, and page 181
- Afro-Marxist Regimes: Ideology and Public Policy by Edmond J. Keller on page 83, and page 157
- Bringing the State Back In by Peter B. Evans in Front Matter, and page 83
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- Information Systems and Global Diversity by Chrisanthi Avgerou on page 117, page 118, and page 119
- Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975-2000 (African Studies) by M. Anne Pitcher in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Information Systems and Global Diversity by Chrisanthi Avgerou on page 118, page 119, and page 120
- Modernization And the Crisis of Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience (Interdisciplinary Research Series in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations) ... in Ethnic, Gender and Class Relations) by Jeremiah I. Dibua on page 48, and Back Matter
- African Poverty at the Millennium: Causes, Complexities, and Challenges by Tony Killick in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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