02710cam a2200421 i 4500 17311465 OSt 20260522090344.0 120521s2013 enk b 001 0 eng 2012019843 9781107030473 hardback 9781107651418 paperback 17311465 DLC eng IPSTC rda DLC pcc f------ JA84.A33 H92 2013 320.3096 23 POL040000 bisacsh Hydén, Göran, 1938- African politics in comparative perspective / Goran Hyden, University of Florida. Second edition. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013. viii, 316 pages . 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine 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? "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"-- Provided by publisher. Political science Africa. Comparative government. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General. bisacsh Africa Politics and government 1960- 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 23796 23795 0 0 lcc 0 0 IPSTC IPSTC 2016-05-09 1984/2016 0 JA84.A33 H92 2013 200119842016 2026-05-22 c1 2016-05-09 BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 IPSTC IPSTC 2016-05-09 2468/2017 0 JA84.A33 H92 2013 200124682017 2026-05-22 c2 2016-05-09 BK