Buch, Englisch, 1824 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 3356 g
Buch, Englisch, 1824 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 3356 g
Reihe: Critical Concepts in Political Science
ISBN: 978-1-138-90165-0
Verlag: Routledge
Scholars and students of African politics address some of the thorniest issues of our time. Indeed, over the last thirty years or so, the subdiscipline has expanded in scope and ambition, and leads the way in major fields of research, such as the study of ethnicity and identity politics.
Now, this timely new collection from Routledge, edited by Nic Cheeseman (the former Director of the African Studies Centre at Oxford University), brings together the classic and essential texts of African politics, creating a top-quality and easily accessible resource for students, researchers, and policymakers alike. The four volumes that make up the collection are structured around the biggest questions that have dominated African Studies:
- What was the legacy of colonial rule, and has Africa broken free of its international dependency?
- How are ethnic identities formed, and what impact have they had?
- Why is Africa so poor? What are the main barriers to development?
- Is democracy feasible in Africa, and, if so, how can it be designed to promote political stability?
Each volume is introduced by a comprehensive summary chapter, newly written by the editor, which both provides a valuable overview of the key trends in the literature and explains what we know, what we don’t know, and what controversies remain.
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VOLUME I AFRICA AND THE WORLD: SOVEREIGNTY, DEPENDENCY AND EXTRAVERSION Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters, An introduction to African politics and Volume I PART 1 Colonial rule and its legacy 1 The slave trade and the origins of mistrust in Africa 2 Beyond settler and native as political identities: overcoming the political legacy of colonialism 3 British colonial legacies and political development PART 2 Sovereignty, dependency and extraversion 4 The political economy of IMF lending in Africa 5 Africa in the world: a history of extraversion 6 Extraversion, vulnerability to donors, and political liberalization in Africa PART 3 Aid and the governance agenda 7 Foreign aid, institutions, and governance in sub-Saharan Africa 8 The power of partnerships in global governance 9 Conditioning the effects of aid: Cold War politics, donor credibility, and democracy in Africa PART 4 The African Diaspora and the rise of remittances 10 Globalisation from below: conceptualising the role of the African Diasporas in Africa’s development 11 Transnational resource fl ow and the paradoxes of belonging: redirecting the debate on transnationalism, remittances, state and citizenship in Africa 12 African diasporas: toward a global history PART 5 Pan Africanism, the African Union and regional integration 13 Explaining the clash and accommodation of interests of major actors in the creation of the African Union 14 Globalization and regionalization in Africa: reactions to attempts at neo-liberal regionalism PART 6 The rise of China and a ‘multi-polar’ world 15 Competing hegemons? Chinese versus American geo-economic strategies in Africa 16 The past in the present: historical and rhetorical lineages in China’s relations with Africa VOLUME II THE AFRICAN STATE: THE STRUGGLE TO CONTROL PEOPLE AND SPACE Introduction to Volume II PART 1 The post-colonial state and its limitations 17 The end of the post-colonial state in Africa? Reflections on changing African political dynamics 18 Citizenship and ethnicity: an examination of two transition moments in Kenyan politics 19 The logic of state failure: learning from late-century Africa 20 Responding to state failure in Africa PART 2 Traditional leaders, ‘hybrid institutions’ and ungoverned spaces 21 Democratic decentralisation and traditional authority: dilemmas of land administration in rural South Africa 22 The roots of resilience: exploring popular support for African traditional authorities 23 Twilight institutions: public authority and local politics in Africa 24 The politics of protection: perspectives on vigilantism in Nigeria PART 3 Neo-patrimonialism, clandestine economies and corruption 25 Neopatrimonialism reconsidered: critical review and elaboration of an elusive concept 26 A moral economy of corruption in Africa? 27 Clandestine economies, violence and states in Africa PART 4 Developmental patrimonialism and developmental states 28 Thinking about developmental states in Africa 29 Neo-patrimonialism, rent-seeking and development: going with the grain? 30 Developmental patrimonialism? The case of Rwanda PART 5 Taxation and the social contract 31 Revenue authorities and public authority in sub-Saharan Africa 32 Tax me if you can: ethnic geography, democracy, and the taxation of agriculture in Africa 33 The origins of voluntary compliance: attitudes toward taxation in urban Nigeria VOLUME III IDENTITY POLITICS, CONFLICT AND ACCOMMODATION: CLASS, RELIGION AND ETHNICITY Introduction to Volume III PART 1 Class and inequality 34 Democracy and distribution in highly unequal economies: the case of South Africa 35 The institutional origins of inequality in sub-Saharan Africa 36 “A palimpsest of contradictions”: ethnicity, class, and politics in Africa PART 2 The politics of religion 37 Religion and politics: taking African epistemologies seriously 38 Transforming politics, dynamic religion: religion’s political impact in contemporary Africa 39 From argument to negotiation: constructing democracy in African Muslim contexts PART 3 Ethnicity, citizenship and development 40 The political salience of cultural difference: why Chewas and Tumbukas are allies in Zambia and adversaries in Malawi 41 From bounded to fl exible citizenship: lessons from Africa 42 Tribe or nation? Nation building and public goods in Kenya versus Tanzania PART 4 Identity, land and conflict 43 The politics of land reform in Zimbabwe 44 Autochthony and citizenship: new modes in the struggle over belonging and exclusion in Africa 45 Land regimes and the structure of politics: patterns of land-related conflict PART 5 Civil war and ethnic violence 46 Why are there so many civil wars in Africa? Understanding and preventing violent conflict 47 On the incidence of civil war in Africa 48 Wars do end! Changing patterns of political violence in sub-Saharan Africa PART 6 Peacebuilding, power sharing and inter-ethnic accommodation 49 Peace and power sharing in Africa: a not so obvious relationship 50 Patronage and political stability in Africa 51 Federalism in Africa: the Nigerian experience in comparative perspective VOLUME IV AUTHORITARIANISM AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY: CIVIL SOCIETY, POLITICAL REPRESENTATION AND ELECTIONS Introduction to Volume IV PART 1 Contemporary authoritarianism 52 Coups and conflict in West Africa, 1955 –2004: Part I, theoretical perspectives 53 Africa’s range of regimes 54 The changing face of authoritarianism in Africa: the case of Uganda 55 Ideology, civilian authority and the Zimbabwean military PART 2 Political parties and party systems 56 Assessing African party systems after the third wave 57 Capital and opposition in Africa: coalition building in multiethnic societies PART 3 Clientelism and political mobilization 58 Voting intentions in Africa: ethnic, economic or partisan? 59 ‘It’s our time to “chop”’: do elections in Africa feed neo-patrimonialism rather than counteract it? 60 Clientelism and voting behavior: evidence from a field experiment in Benin PART 4 The power of elections 61 The surprising signifi cance of African elections 62 African elections as vehicles for change PART 5 Horizontal accountability and political institutionalization 63 The institutionalization of political power in Africa 64 Presidents untamed 65 Legislatures on the rise? 66 Reworking strategic models of executive-judicial relations: insights from new African democracies PART 6 Civil society, gender and political representation 67 Civil society and democratic development 68 Religion and democratization in Africa 69 Women in movement: transformations in African political landscapes 70 Gender quotas, democracy, and women’s representation in Africa: some insights from democratic Botswana and autocratic Rwanda, Index.
