Political Systems and the Distribution of Power

ISBN-13: 9780415511308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 186 str.

Opis

This political anthropology volume provides a study of power, examining the manipulation of political relations and looking at the task of elaborating a classification of governmental systems that will throw light on the important problems for research.

Spis treści

Introduction, Decisions by Consensus in Councils and Committees: with special Reference to Village and Local Government in India, Factions: a Comparative Analysis, I A sociological definition of faction, II The social organization of factions, III Factions and political change, The Political Structure of African Kingdoms: An Exploratory Model, A model, Factors of change, Three variants, A Critique of the Typology of States and Political Systems, I Typology and generalization, II The range of political action, III The means of generalization

O autorze

Michael Banton