Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa

ISBN-13: 9780333694756 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 548 str.

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Opis

The new edition of this popular and widely-used text includes entirely new chapters on political economy and South Africa and has been thoroughly revised throughout to reflect the major changes in Africa and in the wider world since the end of the Cold War. Broadly encompassing, challenging and timely, the book is a major contribution to our understanding of the multiple forces at work on the continent.

Spis treści

The Diversity of African Politics: Trends and Approaches.- PART 1: THE STRUCTURES OF POLITICS State Institutions and the Organization of the Public Arena.- Social Groupings.- Ethnicity, Class, and the State.- PART 2: POLITICAL PROCESS AND POLITICAL CHANGE Regimes in Independent Africa.- High Politics: The Procedures and Practices of Government.- Deep Politics: Political Response, Protest and Conflict.- Political Transitions and Patterns of Change.- PART 3: POLITICAL ECONOMY Coping with Transformation: Approaches to Development.- Coping with Change: Crisis and Attempted Reform.- PART 4: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Inter-African Relations.- Africa in World Politics.- PART 5: POLITICAL FUTURES South Africa:The Possibilities and Limits of Transforming State and Society.- Africa in the Twenty-First Century.

O autorze

NAOMI CHAZAN is Professor of Political Science and African Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

PETER LEWIS is Assistant Professor, American University School of International Service.

ROBERT A MORTIMER is Professor of Political Science, Haverford College.

DONALD ROTHCHILD is Professor of Political Science, University of California, Davis.

STEPHEN JOHN STEDMAN is Associate Professor of African Studies and Comparative Politics, John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.