Political Topographies of the African State

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Catherine, Boone	-
dc.contributor.editor	Margaret Levi	-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-11T07:36:56Z	-
dc.date.available	2018-10-11T07:36:56Z	-
dc.date.issued	2003	-
dc.identifier.isbn	0-521-53264-7	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/9034	-
dc.description	Political Topographies of the African State shows that central rulers’ power, ambitions, and strategies of control have always varied across subregions of the national space, even in countries reputed to be highly centralized. Catherine Boone argues that this unevenness reflects a state-building logic that is shaped by differences in the political economy of the regions – that is, by relations of property, production, and authority that determine the political clout and economic needs of regional-level elites. Center-provincial bargaining, rather than the unilateral choices of the center, is what drives the politics of national integration and determines how institutions distribute power. When devolution occurs, will we get local democracy, decentralized despotism, or disintegration of authority? Political Topographies shows why and how the answer can vary across space within a single national unit.	-
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Cambridge	en_US
dc.subject	Africa – Politics and government	en_US
dc.title	Political Topographies of the African State	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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