LEADER 03369nam 22006852 450 001 9910828780503321 005 20151005020624.0 010 $a1-139-79441-8 010 $a1-316-09033-7 010 $a1-139-34375-0 010 $a1-107-25492-2 010 $a1-139-77701-7 010 $a1-139-78304-1 010 $a1-139-78005-0 010 $a1-283-71604-6 010 $a1-139-77853-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000708278 035 $a(EBL)1042537 035 $a(OCoLC)833769533 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000754968 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11496236 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000754968 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10727240 035 $a(PQKB)11050859 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139343756 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1042537 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1042537 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10618570 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL402854 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000708278 100 $a20120314d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAfrican politics in comparative perspective /$fGoran Hyden, University of Florida$b[electronic resource] 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 316 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-03047-1 311 $a1-107-65141-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine 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? 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aPolitical science$zAfrica 606 $aComparative government 607 $aAfrica$xPolitics and government$y1960- 615 0$aPolitical science 615 0$aComparative government. 676 $a320.3096 686 $aPOL040000$2bisacsh 700 $aHyde?n$b Go?ran$f1938-$0243697 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828780503321 996 $aAfrican politics in comparative perspective$94069705 997 $aUNINA