02445cam a2200373 i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000280008802000290011603500130014504000300015804200080018804300120019605000230020808200170023108400230024810000290027124500870030025000200038726400640040730000290047133600210050033700250052133800230054650400510056950503440062052009500096465000310191465000280194565000550197365100430202817311465OSt20260522090344.0120521s2013    enk      b    001 0 eng    a  2012019843  a9781107030473qhardback  a9781107651418qpaperback  a17311465  aDLCbengcIPSTCerdadDLC  apcc  af------00aJA84.A33bH92 201300a320.3096223  aPOL0400002bisacsh1 aHydén, Göran,d1938-10aAfrican politics in comparative perspective /cGoran Hyden, University of Florida.  aSecond edition. 1aCambridge ;aNew York :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  aviii, 316 pages .c24 cm  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.8 aMachine generated contents note: 1. The study of politics and Africa; 2. The supremacy of politics; 3. The problematic state; 4. The economy of affection; 5. Big man rule; 6. The policy paradox; 7. The agrarian question; 8. The gender issue; 9. The ethnic factor; 10. The external dimension; 11. What we know and how; 12. Quo vadis Africa?  a"This revised and expanded second edition of African Politics in Comparative Perspective reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa and addresses some issues in a new light, keeping in mind the changes in Africa since the first edition was written in 2004. The book synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated in the field. Goran Hyden discusses how research on African politics relates to the study of politics in other regions and mainstream theories in comparative politics. He focuses on such key issues as why politics trumps economics, rule is personal, state is weak and policies are made with a communal rather than an individual lens. The book also discusses why in the light of these conditions agriculture is problematic, gender contested, ethnicity manipulated and relations with Western powers a matter of defiance"--cProvided by publisher. 0aPolitical sciencezAfrica. 0aComparative government. 7aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.2bisacsh 0aAfricaxPolitics and governmenty1960-