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020			_a9781139343756 (ebook)
020			_z9781107030473 (hardback)
020			_z9781107651418 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _cUkCbUP _erda
050	0	0	_aJA84.A33 _bH92 2013
082	0	0	_a320.3096 _223
100	1		_aHyden, Goran, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAfrican Politics in Comparative Perspective / [electronic resource] _cGoran Hyden.
250			_a2nd ed.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (326 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520			_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.
650		0	_aComparative government
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107030473
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139343756 _zCambridge Books Online
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