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008			120521s2013 enk b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2012019843
020			_a9781107651418
040			_aUMI _cUMI _dUMI
082	0	0	_a320.3096 _223 _bHYD
100	1		_aHydén, Göran, _d1938- _915920
245	1	0	_aAfrican politics in comparative perspective / _cGoran Hyden, University of Florida.
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _cc2013.
300			_aviii, 316 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"This 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	_aPolitical science _zAfrica. _915921
650		0	_aComparative government. _915922
651		0	_aAfrica _xPolitics and government _y1960- _915924
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