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Political domination in Africa : reflections on the limits of power
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ISBN: 0521311489 0521322979 0511558791 Year: 1986 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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.


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Democratic theory and practice in Africa
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ISBN: 0852553277 Year: 1988 Publisher: London Currey


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Algérie : légitimité historique et continuité politique.
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ISBN: 2862620181 9782862620183 Year: 1979 Publisher: Paris Le Sycomore


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Les systèmes politiques africains
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ISBN: 2275012036 9782275012032 Year: 1978 Volume: 27 Publisher: Paris : Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence,

Democracy in developing countries. 2 : Africa
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ISBN: 1555870449 0744900107 0744900077 1555870406 1555870430 0744900115 0744900069 9780744900101 9781555870447 9780744900064 9780744900071 Year: 1988 Publisher: London Adamantine press

Contemporary West African states
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ISBN: 0521368936 0521363667 0511521618 0511875169 9780521368933 9780511521614 9780521363662 Year: 1990 Volume: 65 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The West African states have reached maturity. This new volume - appearing a decade after the successful West African States: Failure and Promise - provides up-to-date studies of nine states, including Chad, Burkina Faso and Cameroon, which were neglected in the earlier volume, and introduces contemporary theories of West African politics. The book reflects changes on the ground and also in academic debate, notably the remarkable retreat of dependency theory and Marxian analysis and the rise of free-market theorising by both governments and scholars. The volume also contains important observations on the political importance of religious fundamentalism in the region, and the growth of sub-national forms of political activity. The writers are well-known scholars in the field, and include contributors to the influential journal Politique Africaine. This will be a useful textbook for everyone interested in African politics, but it is also a provocative contribution to the debate on the nature of the state and political processes in Africa.


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West African states : failure and promise : a study in comparative politics
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ISBN: 0521292832 0521218012 0511563167 9780521292832 9780511563164 9780521218016 Year: 1978 Volume: 23 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In 1956 the West African coast between southern Mauretania and western Cameroon was lined with no less than ten European colonial territories, along with a single independent African state. All of these colonial units have joined Liberia in formal political independence. Their political experiences since 1956 and indeed the forms of their present political regimes themselves have varied very widely over this period, from the defiant and paranoid austerity of Guinea to the gleeful surge of Nigeria's oil-generated capitalist expansion. In political taste the present governments cover almost the full spectrum of Third World regimes. Yet the societies themselves have many geographical and historical features in common, certainly far more in common than in the case of most units studied by analysts of comparative politics. This book was first published in 1978.

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