Book Description
This collection explores the relationships of class and state in contemporary African politics.
Author : Nelson Kasfir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1317792076
This collection explores the relationships of class and state in contemporary African politics.
Author : Nelson Kasfir
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release :
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Donald Rothchild
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000304949
Since independence, the political institutions of many African states have undergone a process of consolidation and subsequent deterioration. Constrained by external economic dependency and an acute scarcity of economic and technical resources, state officials have demonstrated a diminished capacity to regulate their societies. Public policies are agreed upon but ineffectively implemented by the weak institutions of the state. Although scholars have analyzed the various facets of state-building in detail, little systematic attention has been given to the issue of the decline of the state and mechanisms to cope with state ineffectiveness in Africa. This book focuses especially on the character of the postcolonial state in Africa, the nature of and reasons for state deterioration, and the mechanisms and policies for coping with state malfunction. Scholars from Africa, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East combine a broad understanding of African political processes with expertise on specific regions. Their analytic and comparative perspective provides a comprehensive and timely treatment of this vital and heretofore neglected theme in African politics.
Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 12,92 MB
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780520032927
Author : Eme Ekekwe
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Harold Wolpe
Publisher : Africa World Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 9780865431423
Author : Zaki Ergas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 1987-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1349188867
In the first twenty-five years of African independence the behaviour of the African state elites has not been, with a few notable exceptions, conducive to self-sustained development. What are the reasons for this sorry state of affairs? What can be done to reverse that unfortunate trend? These are the two overarching questions with which this book attempts to grapple.
Author : Jean-François Bayart
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
Examines the role and structure of the state in Africa. Amongst the areas considered are: the genesis of the state; the decision to pursue conservative modernization or social revolution; the formation of an historic postcolonial bloc; and entrepreneurs, factions and political networks.
Author : Jeffrey Herbst
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2014-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400852323
Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have failed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbst's bold contention—that the conditions now facing African state-builders existed long before European penetration of the continent—is sure to provoke controversy, for it runs counter to the prevailing assumption that colonialism changed everything. This revised edition includes a new preface in which the author links the enormous changes that have taken place in Africa over the past fifteen years to long-term state consolidation. The final chapter on policy prescriptions has also been revised to reflect the evolution of African and international responses to state failure.
Author : Patrick M. Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429866992
First published in 1999, this study of the politics of education in Cameroon, the Congo and Kenya presents arresting empirical evidence that urban elites exiting public sector educational systems they have dominated in favour of private school networks of their own creation. Seeking to enhance their offspring’s chances for survival and even domination in a world of scarce resources and limited opportunities for employment, elites see private schools as tools to shape newly emerging civil societies in Africa in their own image. From a theoretical perspective, the fresh evidence presented here shows that schooling has once again become a major social force influencing the balance of state and society in modern Africa. Re-examining an older political tradition of class analysis and integrating it into more recent civil society perspectives, the author shows that the abandonment of the unreliable education services of dysfunctional African states in favour of private schools has profound consequences for class articulation in societies dividing, once again, according to educational opportunities.