The African State in Transition

  • Zaki Ergas
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Zaki Ergas
      Pages 1-22

  3. The Theory

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 23-23
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    2. Reflections on State-Centrism as Ideology in Africa
      Harvey Glickman
      Pages 25-43
    3. Class, Political Domination and the African state
      Nelson Kasfir
      Pages 45-60
    4. The Managerial State in Africa: A Conflict Coalition Perspective
      Otwin Marenin
      Pages 61-85
    5. The State as Lame Leviathan: The Patrimonial Administrative State in Africa
      Thomas M. Callaghy
      Pages 87-116
    6. Hegemony and State Softness: Some Variations in Elite Responses
      Donald Rothchild
      Pages 117-148
    7. The Dynamics of Factionalism in Contemporary Africa
      René Lemarchand
      Pages 149-165

  4. The Practice

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 167-167
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    2. The Crisis of the Socialist State in Africa
      Marina S. Ottaway
      Pages 169-190
    3. The Military and the State in Africa: Problems of Political Transition
      Claude E. Welch Jr
      Pages 191-215
    4. Foreign Exchange and the Economic Crisis in Africa
      Carol Lancaster
      Pages 217-235
    5. The Politics of Agricultural Pricing in Sub-Saharan Africa
      Robert H. Bates
      Pages 237-261
    6. Basic Human Needs and the African State
      Robert L. Curry Jr
      Pages 263-293
    7. In Search of Development in Africa
      Zaki Ergas
      Pages 295-329
  5. Back Matter
    Pages 331-340
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About this book

Introduction

In the first twenty-five years of African independence the behaviour of the African state elites has not been, with a few notable exceptions, conducive to self-sustained development. What are the reasons for this sorry state of affairs? What can be done to reverse that unfortunate trend? These are the two overarching questions with which this book attempts to grapple.

Keywords

conflict Leviathan Policy

Editors and affiliations

  • Zaki Ergas
    • 1
  1. 1.Institute of International StudiesUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyUSA

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18886-4
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1987
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-18888-8
  • Online ISBN 978-1-349-18886-4
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