02045nam a22003258a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002400224082001700248100002700265245008700292250001200379264005200391300005900443336002600502337002600528338003600554500007300590520092300663650002701586776003501613856007101648CR9781139343756UkCbUP20180107143411.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||120314s2012||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139343756 (ebook)  z9781107030473 (hardback)  z9781107651418 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aJA84.A33 bH92 201300a320.30962231 aHyden, Goran,eauthor.10aAfrican Politics in Comparative Perspective / [electronic resource] cGoran Hyden.  a2nd ed. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a1 online resource (326 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aThis 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. 0aComparative government08iPrint version: z978110703047340uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139343756zCambridge Books Online