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The African State at a Critical Juncture : Between Disintegration and Reconfiguration / ed. by Phillip A. Huxtable, Leonardo A. Villalon.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781685853815
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 The Contemporary Context of African Politics -- 1 The African State at the End of the Twentieth Century: Parameters of the Critical Juncture -- 2 The African State in the Global Economic Context -- Part 2 Perspectives on State Disintegration -- 3 State Inversion and Nonstate Politics -- 4 Somalia: The Structure of Dissolution -- 5 Rwanda: Chaos from Above -- 6 Sierra Leone: Weak States and the New Sovereignty Game -- 7 Zaire: The Bankruptcy of the Extractive State -- 8 “Empirical Statehood” and Reconfigurations of Political Order -- 9 Senegal: The Crisis of Democracy and the Emergence of an Islamic Opposition -- 10 Kenya: The Women’s Movement and Democratic Change -- 11 Ghana: Structural Adjustment and State (Re)Formation -- 12 Côte d’Ivoire: The Crisis of Distributive Politics -- 13 Uganda: The Catholic Church and State Reconstruction -- 14 Zimbabwe: Women, Cultural Crisis, and the Reconfiguration of the One-Party State -- Part 4 Conclusion -- 15 The African State Toward the Twenty-First Century: Legacies of the Critical Juncture -- Acronyms -- References -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book
Summary: Comparatively explores the sources, patterns, and likely evolution of significant political change in a variety of African cases.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 The Contemporary Context of African Politics -- 1 The African State at the End of the Twentieth Century: Parameters of the Critical Juncture -- 2 The African State in the Global Economic Context -- Part 2 Perspectives on State Disintegration -- 3 State Inversion and Nonstate Politics -- 4 Somalia: The Structure of Dissolution -- 5 Rwanda: Chaos from Above -- 6 Sierra Leone: Weak States and the New Sovereignty Game -- 7 Zaire: The Bankruptcy of the Extractive State -- 8 “Empirical Statehood” and Reconfigurations of Political Order -- 9 Senegal: The Crisis of Democracy and the Emergence of an Islamic Opposition -- 10 Kenya: The Women’s Movement and Democratic Change -- 11 Ghana: Structural Adjustment and State (Re)Formation -- 12 Côte d’Ivoire: The Crisis of Distributive Politics -- 13 Uganda: The Catholic Church and State Reconstruction -- 14 Zimbabwe: Women, Cultural Crisis, and the Reconfiguration of the One-Party State -- Part 4 Conclusion -- 15 The African State Toward the Twenty-First Century: Legacies of the Critical Juncture -- Acronyms -- References -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book

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Comparatively explores the sources, patterns, and likely evolution of significant political change in a variety of African cases.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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