Political Domination in Africa ( African Studies )

Publication series :African Studies

Author: Patrick Chabal  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 1986

E-ISBN: 9780511871153

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521311489

Subject: D Political and Legal

Keyword: 政治、法律

Language: ENG

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Political Domination in Africa

Description

This collection of essays brings together historians and political scientists from Britain, France and the United States, who, from widely differing perspectives and traditions, have been involved in the process of rethinking African politics. They present here the outline of a new approach, grounded in universal political theory rather than on theories of Third World political development. This seeks to integrate the history of Africa (from pre- to post-colonial) with concepts of political theory as they have been applied historically to the analysis of Europe and America. The book addresses a wide audience: students of African history and politics, of Third World development and of political theory.

Chapter

1 Democracy in Africa

2 Politics and vision in Africa: the interplay of domination, equality and liberty

I Note on Definition and Causal Analysis

II The Patrimontal Administrative State in Africa: the Underlying of Domination

III The Patrimonial Administrative state in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

IV Democracy in an African Patrimonial Administrative State: The Case of Nigeria

Conclusion

3 Democracy and ethnocentrism

The 'Ethnocentrist' and 'Imperalist' Critiques

The ethnocentrist critique

The imperialist critique

Solutions

4 Wails and whispers: the people's voice in West African Muslim politics

Traditional Islam: The Politics of Mysticism

Reformist Islam: Sacrality and Westernisation

Revolutionary Islam: The Cycle of Muslim Renewal

Conclusion

5 Revolutionary democracy in Africa: the case of Guinea-Bissau

6 Civil society in Africa

State and Civil Society

The Traditions of Modernity

The Tranisition to Politics

7 Political accountability in African history

Argument

Power, Accountability and Community

8 The politics of representation and good government in post-colonial Africa

Notes

Index

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