Political Topographies of the African State

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Catherine Boone

页数:422

出版时间:2003-12

价格:USD 40.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521532648

丛书系列:Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

具体描述

This study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge: institutional linkages and political deals that bind center and periphery are the solutions. In African countries, as in territorially diverse states around the world, rulers at the center are forced to bargain with regional elites to establish stable mechanisms of rule and taxation. Variation in regional forms of social organization make for differences in the interests and political strength of regional leaders who seek to maintain or enhance their power vis-à-vis their followers and subjects, and also vis-à-vis the center. The uneven political topography of the regions ultimately produces unevenness in the patterns and depth of center-region linkage. Six sub-regions of three West African countries - Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, and Ghana - are the backbone of the study.

目录信息

1. Introduction; 2. Mapping institutional topography; 3.1 Uneven institutional topography within one state; 3.2 Powersharing in Senegal's groundnut basin; 3.3 Administrative occupation in Casamance; 3.4 Conclusion; 4.1 Taxing rich peasants: ideology as strategy; 4.2 Usurping 'rightful rulers': Asante; 4.3 'Local powers do not exist': southern Cote d'Ivoire; 4.4 Conclusion; 5.1 The geopolitics of late development; 5.2 Path switching in northern Cote d'Ivoire; 5.3 Path switching in the Senegal River Valley; 5.4 Conclusion: why institutional strategies change; 6. Conclusion.
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用户评价

前三分之一。想来大四的时候还从图书馆借来看这本书来着

分析有些静态，结论部分提出了一个超出原有决策组合的新论证，算是填掉了一些漏洞。

subnational variation; state-society relations. social hierarchy, economic dependency, spatial and processual dimensions, 2*2.

subnational variation; state-society relations. social hierarchy, economic dependency, spatial and processual dimensions, 2*2.

subnational variation; state-society relations. social hierarchy, economic dependency, spatial and processual dimensions, 2*2.