02076nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139343756 UkCbUP 20180107143411.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120314s2012||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139343756 (ebook) 9781107030473 (hardback) 9781107651418 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda JA84.A33 H92 2013 320.3096 23 Hyden, Goran, author. African Politics in Comparative Perspective / [electronic resource] Goran Hyden. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (326 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). This 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. Comparative government Print version: 9781107030473 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139343756 Cambridge Books Online 236417 236417