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The Politics of Development in Botswana : A Model for Success? / Louis A. Picard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©1987Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780931477959
  • 9781685859534
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- A Note on the Usage of Terms -- Preface -- 1 The State and Society -- 2 The Tswana Polities and British Colonialism in Southern Africa -- 3 Bureaucrats and Chiefs: Contradictions of Indirect Rule -- 4 Recruitment in the Civil Service: The Oxbridge Model, Localization, and the Protectorate -- 5 Colonial Economic Policy: Benign Neglect or Structural Underdevelopment? -- 6 Crisis and Containment: The Limits of Nationalism in the Bureaucratic State -- 7 Independent Botswana: Containment, Electoral Mobilization, and the Multiparty System -- 8 Local Government Institutions: Patterns of Autonomy and Control -- 9 The Politics of Human Resource Constraints -- 10 Changing Rural Development Priorities in a Growth Economy -- 11 Conclusion -- Selected Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Examines the politics of development in Botswana and explores the extent to which the country can serve as a model for other developing states.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- A Note on the Usage of Terms -- Preface -- 1 The State and Society -- 2 The Tswana Polities and British Colonialism in Southern Africa -- 3 Bureaucrats and Chiefs: Contradictions of Indirect Rule -- 4 Recruitment in the Civil Service: The Oxbridge Model, Localization, and the Protectorate -- 5 Colonial Economic Policy: Benign Neglect or Structural Underdevelopment? -- 6 Crisis and Containment: The Limits of Nationalism in the Bureaucratic State -- 7 Independent Botswana: Containment, Electoral Mobilization, and the Multiparty System -- 8 Local Government Institutions: Patterns of Autonomy and Control -- 9 The Politics of Human Resource Constraints -- 10 Changing Rural Development Priorities in a Growth Economy -- 11 Conclusion -- Selected Glossary -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Examines the politics of development in Botswana and explores the extent to which the country can serve as a model for other developing states.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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