Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional ChoiceCambridge University Press, 27 oct 2003 - 405 páginas This study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge: institutional linkages and political deals that bind center and periphery are the solutions. In African countries, rulers at the center are forced to bargain with regional elites to establish stable mechanisms of rule and taxation. Variation in regional forms of social organization make for differences in the interests and political strength of regional leaders who seek to maintain or enhance their power vis-a-vis their followers and subjects, and also vis-a-vis the center. |
Índice
MAPPING POLITICAL TOPOGRAPHY | 11 |
UNEVEN INSTITUTIONAL TOPOGRAPHY | 38 |
West Africa page | 39 |
REGIME | 141 |
Tables | 206 |
THE GEOPOLITICS OF LATE DEVELOPMENT | 240 |
Figures | 290 |
CONCLUSION | 318 |
A Note on Sources Evidence and Measurement | 353 |
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