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- catalog abstract "Africa has undergone significant political, economic, and social change since the first edition of this book was published in early 1988. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition includes current economic, social, and political data, as well as entirely new sections on the dismantling of apartheid, civil society, democratization and multiparty politics, economic reform and structural adjustment, and the prospects for African development in the twenty-first century. Review comments on the first edition: 'Required reading for any course on politics and society of the African continent' West Africa 'The best available textbook on the subject...this volume stands unchallenged in its comprehensiveness and sophistication.'".
- catalog alternative "Contemporary Africa.".
- catalog contributor b3873206.
- catalog coverage "Africa Economic conditions 1960-".
- catalog coverage "Africa Foreign relations.".
- catalog coverage "Africa Politics and government 1960-".
- catalog coverage "Africa Social conditions 1960-".
- catalog created "c1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "c1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
- catalog description "1. Diversity of African Politics: Trends and Approaches -- Independent Africa: Trends and Patterns -- Approaches to the Study of African Politics -- Political Interaction Framework -- Pt. I. Structures of Politics -- 2. State Institutions and the Organization of the Public Arena -- Concept of the State in Africa -- Structural Foundations of African States: The Colonial Legacy -- Constructions of the Public Arena Since Independence -- States and State Variety in Africa: Some Implications -- 3. Social Groupings -- Social Groups and Social Process -- Organization of Social Life -- Social-Networks and Social Trends -- 4. Ethnicity, Class, and the State -- Ethnicity and Ethnic Group -- Ethnic Intermediary's Critical Role -- African Class Cleavages and Social Conflicts -- Class and Ethnicity as Situational Variables -- Pt. 2. Political Process and Political Change -- 5. Regimes in Independent Africa --".
- catalog description "10. Africa and the World Economy --".
- catalog description "Africa has undergone significant political, economic, and social change since the first edition of this book was published in early 1988. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition includes current economic, social, and political data, as well as entirely new sections on the dismantling of apartheid, civil society, democratization and multiparty politics, economic reform and structural adjustment, and the prospects for African development in the twenty-first century. Review comments on the first edition: 'Required reading for any course on politics and society of the African continent' West Africa 'The best available textbook on the subject...this volume stands unchallenged in its comprehensiveness and sophistication.'".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Regime Evolution in Postcolonial Africa -- Regime Types and Their Variations -- Regime Types and Political Process -- 6. High Politics: The Procedures and Practices of Government -- Politics of the Center: Decisionmaking and the Rules of the Political Game -- Politics of Social Relations -- Center Consolidation and Maintenance: Some Trends -- 7. Deep Politics: Political Response, Protest, and Conflict -- Elite Conflicts -- Factional Conflicts -- Communal Conflicts -- Mass Conflicts -- Popular Conflicts -- Interplay of Political Conflicts -- 8. Political Transitions and Patterns of Change -- Modes of Political Change -- Patterns of Political Interaction -- Pt. 3. Political Economy -- 9. Political Economy: Policy Choices in a Constraining Environment -- African Economies in Historical Perspective -- Sectoral Policies in the Postindependence Period -- Popular Strategies for Economic Survival. Conclusion: An Overextended State? --".
- catalog extent "xii, 483 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Politics and society in contemporary Africa.".
- catalog identifier "0333578147 (U.K.)".
- catalog identifier "1555872832 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Politics and society in contemporary Africa.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "c1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boulder, Colo. : L. Rienner Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Politics and society in contemporary Africa.".
- catalog spatial "Africa Economic conditions 1960-".
- catalog spatial "Africa Foreign relations.".
- catalog spatial "Africa Politics and government 1960-".
- catalog spatial "Africa Social conditions 1960-".
- catalog subject "960.3/2 20".
- catalog subject "JQ1872 .P635 1992".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Diversity of African Politics: Trends and Approaches -- Independent Africa: Trends and Patterns -- Approaches to the Study of African Politics -- Political Interaction Framework -- Pt. I. Structures of Politics -- 2. State Institutions and the Organization of the Public Arena -- Concept of the State in Africa -- Structural Foundations of African States: The Colonial Legacy -- Constructions of the Public Arena Since Independence -- States and State Variety in Africa: Some Implications -- 3. Social Groupings -- Social Groups and Social Process -- Organization of Social Life -- Social-Networks and Social Trends -- 4. Ethnicity, Class, and the State -- Ethnicity and Ethnic Group -- Ethnic Intermediary's Critical Role -- African Class Cleavages and Social Conflicts -- Class and Ethnicity as Situational Variables -- Pt. 2. Political Process and Political Change -- 5. Regimes in Independent Africa --".
- catalog tableOfContents "10. Africa and the World Economy --".
- catalog tableOfContents "Regime Evolution in Postcolonial Africa -- Regime Types and Their Variations -- Regime Types and Political Process -- 6. High Politics: The Procedures and Practices of Government -- Politics of the Center: Decisionmaking and the Rules of the Political Game -- Politics of Social Relations -- Center Consolidation and Maintenance: Some Trends -- 7. Deep Politics: Political Response, Protest, and Conflict -- Elite Conflicts -- Factional Conflicts -- Communal Conflicts -- Mass Conflicts -- Popular Conflicts -- Interplay of Political Conflicts -- 8. Political Transitions and Patterns of Change -- Modes of Political Change -- Patterns of Political Interaction -- Pt. 3. Political Economy -- 9. Political Economy: Policy Choices in a Constraining Environment -- African Economies in Historical Perspective -- Sectoral Policies in the Postindependence Period -- Popular Strategies for Economic Survival. Conclusion: An Overextended State? --".
- catalog title "Contemporary Africa.".
- catalog title "Politics and society in contemporary Africa / Naomi Chazan ... [et al.].".
- catalog type "text".