African Politics in Comparative Perspective

Type

Book

Authors

Goran Hyden

ISBN 10

0521671949

ISBN 13

9780521671941

Tags

Africa, Non-US Legal Systems, African, History & Theory, Comparative Politics, Political History, Government

Description

This book reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa. It synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated over the years. It discusses how research on African politics relates the study of politics in other regions and mainstream theories in Comparative Politics. 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. - from Amzon

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