Political Topographies of the African State

Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice

By:

Catherine Boone

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

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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, as in territorially diverse states around the world, 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. The uneven political topography of the regions ultimately produces unevenness in the patterns and depth of center-region linkage. Six sub-regions of three West African countries - Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, and Ghana - are the backbone of the study.

Release date Australia

October 27th, 2003

Author

Catherine Boone

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

7 Tables, unspecified; 7 Maps; 1 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

422

Series

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Dimensions

152x229x27

ISBN-13

9780521825573

Product ID

2161810

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