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Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa

ISBN: 9781555876791 | 155587679X
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Pub
Pub. Date: 10/1/1999

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Table of Contents
List of Tables
ix
Map of Africa
xi
Introduction1(4)
The Diver... MORE
5(32)
Independent Africa: Trends and Patterns
6(8)
Approaches to the Study of African Politics
14(9)
The Political Interaction Framework
23(14)
PART I THE STRUCTURES OF POLITICS
State Institutions and the Organization of the Public Arena
37(38)
The Concept of the State in Africa
38(4)
The Structural Foundations of African States: The Colonial Legacy
42(4)
Constructions of the Public Arena Since Independence
46(22)
States and State Variety in Africa: Some Implications
68(7)
Social Groupings
75(32)
Social Groups and Social Process
76(3)
The Organization of Social Life
79(21)
Social Networks and Social Trends
100(7)
Ethnicity, Class, and the State
107(30)
Ethnicity and Ethnic Group
108(4)
The Ethnic Intermediary's Critical Role
112(7)
African Class Cleavages and Social Conflicts
119(8)
Class and Ethnicity as Situational Variables
127(10)
PART 2 POLITICAL PROCESS AND POLITICAL CHANGE
Regimes in Independent Africa
137(22)
Regime Evolution in Postcolonial Africa
139(2)
Regime Types and Their Variations
141(14)
Regime Types and Political Process
155(4)
High Politics: The Procedures and Practices of Government
159(38)
The Politics of the Center: Decisionmaking and the Rules of the Political Game
160(16)
The Politics of Social Relations
176(14)
Consolidation and Maintenance of the Political Center: Some Trends
190(7)
Deep Politics: Political Response, Protest, and Conflict
197(24)
Elite Conflicts
198(3)
Factional Conflicts
201(5)
Communal Conflicts
206(5)
Mass Conflicts
211(2)
Popular Conflicts
213(3)
The Interplay of Political Conflicts
216(5)
Political Transitions and Patterns of Change
221(18)
Modes of Political Change
222(8)
Patterns of Political Interaction
230(9)
PART 3 POLITICAL ECONOMY
Coping with Transformation: Approaches to Development
239(66)
The Range of Choice
240(4)
Africa in the World Economy
244(19)
Regimes, Ideology, and Development Strategies
263(12)
Sectoral Policies
275(30)
Coping with Change: Crisis and Attempted Reform
305(56)
Managing Dependence: National Strategies
306(1)
Strategies Toward Foreign Capital
307(3)
Collective Strategies: Regional Integration
310(9)
Africa and North-South Relations
319(6)
Africa's Economic Crisis
325(8)
Structural Adjustment and the International Financial Institutions
333(16)
Economic Reform and Democratization
349(12)
PART 4 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Inter-African Relations
361(60)
Trans-Saharan Africa
364(23)
Central Africa
387(7)
Southern Africa
394(11)
Inter-African Politics in the Waning Cold War Era
405(3)
Inter-African Politics in the Post--Cold War Environment
408(6)
Conclusion
414(7)
Africa in World Politics
421(44)
Africa and Europe
422(9)
Soviet-U.S. Competition in Africa
431(18)
Detente in Africa
449(2)
Africa in the New Multipolar System
451(4)
Conclusion: Africa Among the Lesser Powers
455(10)
PART 5 POLITICAL FUTURES
South Africa: The Possibilities and Limits of Transforming State and Society
465(26)
The Historical Formation of a Dual Society
466(7)
Apartheid's Contradictions and Black Resistance
473(4)
Negotiations for a New Constitution
477(7)
The Challenge of Transformation
484(7)
Africa in the Twenty-First Century
491(8)
Appendix 1: Acronyms499(4)
Appendix 2: Changes in Country Names503(2)
Appendix 3: Basic Political Data505(22)
Index527(18)
About the Book545


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