David E Apter
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 206158 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David E Apter |
| NOMBRES | David E |
| APELLIDO | Apter |
| FIRMA | APTER D E |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 80 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 535 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1954 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Ghana in Transition
Contents: PART I:1. The African Challenge to Democracy. PART II: 2. Historical Background. 3. The Physical and Economic Environment. PART III: 4. The Traditionally Oriented System. 5. Political Organization Among the Akan. 6. Patterns of Indirect Rule. 7. The Politics of Indirect Rule. 8. Towards Autonomy Within the Commonwealth. 9. The Structures of Secular Government. 10. Patterns of Gold Coast Politics. I I. The Legislative Assembly in Action.…
Clifford Geertz as a Cultural System
Clifford Geertz was among the relatively few academics and even fewer anthropologists who attained the status of public intellectual. (How many anthropologists have been received by the pope?) Among his peers in an age when obscurantism is likely to be taken for professionality, he brought intelligence into the living room. There were rewards as well as punishments for this accomplishment. He was more influential among scholars and intellectuals …
From Order to Violence
Interdisciplinary from the Start
This article is a reflection of Zolberg's influence on the author's intellectual life in relation to Africa, the social sciences, and university politics
The Multinational Corporation and Social Change
An approach to interdisciplinarity
This article presents the case for interdisciplinarity as a useful methodological framework for the social sciences. Interdisciplinarity is examined as a process of both disciplinary incorporation and paradigmatic evolution, which can deepen understandings of political and social questions. As social and political institutions, events and movements become increasingly more complex, hyphenated disciplines can lend critical new perspectives to the …
The Chicago School and the roots of urban ethnography
Mao and the Cultural Revolution in China
This forum includes five commentaries focusing on a much-acclaimed book by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, Mao's Last Revolution, published by Harvard University Press. The book provides a meticulous account of the Cultural Revolution in China, from 1966 to 1976. MacFarquhar and Schoenhals assess the roles of Mao Zedong and other senior Chinese officials and discuss what was happening in all regions of China during this period of ter…
Ghana's Independence
In becoming sub-Saharan Africa's first independent state fifty years ago, Ghana created high expectations for radical change throughout Africa-and beyond. David E. Apter explores the long-range effects of Ghana's revolution and the puzzling questions about President Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party that linger on
Globalisation and the politics of negative pluralism
Using Africa as an example, the author suggests how globalisation in the form of innovative and capitalist intensive technology marginalises labour while creating a technically informed elite. The division between them represent social cleavages based on high risk and functional polarisation, both of which lead to divisive rather than mediating forms of pluralism. In such instances interests become elevated to principles, particularly around paro…
On Clifford Geertz
when we were both students at Antioch College. He was a 1⁄2dgety, scratchy, given-to-mumbling sort of guy, in no way prepossessing although I knew on 1⁄2rst exchange that he was no ordinary student. Not that he was given over much to casual conversation, even in that high academic moment known as the Veteran Generation, when student discussions (or better, arguments), usually about politics, were pretty much the order of the day. Cliff tended not…
Bearing Witness
The role of foreign witnesses in describing exceptional historical events can contribute to the way those events unfold. Three examples serve to illustrate this: Edgar Snow, Anna Louise Strong and Agnes Smedley. At the start of the Chinese communist revolution each of these commentators offered personal testimony to and validation of what became a political myth and was elevated to the status of a state political religion with Mao the central fig…
Schools of Thought
Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This collection of twenty essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. The authors, who represent a wide range of disciplines, are all associated with the …
Seeking the Peace
The Political Kingdom in Uganda
The Legitimization of Violence
Violence is a more and more ubiquitous phenomenon. While a great deal of attention has been paid to certain aspects, terrorism for example, it has not been studied as a political phenomenon in and of
The Legitimization of Violence
Violence has become a ubiquitous phenomenon in our world. Occurring daily across the globe, violence is sparked by diverse and complicated societal and political factors. While certain aspects of violence such as terrorism have received increasing scrutiny in recent years, violence has rarely been examined as a political phenomenon in and of itself. Emphasizing the importance of memory, narrative, and political solidarity, The Legitimization of V…
Revolutionary Discourse in Mao's Republic
Preface Acknowledgments Toward a Discourse Theory of Politics FICTIVE TRUTHS AND LOGICAL INFERENCES Four Struggles Three Stories One Line YAN'AN AS A MOBILIZATION SPACE The Surviving Yan'anites The Terrain on the Ground Yan'an as a Revolutionary Simulacrum THE POWER OF SYMBOLIC CAPITAL Exegetical Bonding and the Phenomenology of Confession Foucault's Paradox and the Politics of Contending Discourses Appendix: Cadre Schools in the Shaan-Gan-Ning B…
Political Protest and Social Change
At the close of the twentieth century, political protests have erupted throughout the world. While the collapse of communism was certainly one of the most spectacular protest- related events, smaller protests have become ubiquitous. In Los Angeles, labor activists campaign against commercial real estate owners to unionize janitors, mainly Latina immigrants. In the People's Republic of China, peasants revolt against tax collectors. Amazonian India…
Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Since the 1950s David Apter and Carl Rosberg have been among the leading American scholars in African studies. In this volume they, along with other specialists in the field, explore the configurations of African politics. With tentative efforts at a revival of democracy now taking place, it seems appropriate to reassess the theoretical debates and empirical themes that have characterised postwar Sub-Saharan African politics. Focusing on a new re…
Theories of the World System
However appealing the radical pluralist vision of a small-scale, decentralized political system, today large-scale institutions in the world system make the crucial decisions that affect human lives. Protesters can no longer just think globally and act locally but must also consider the impact of transnational institutions on people everywhere. The major powers, along with minor regional powers, now possess nuclear weapons that can destroy millio…
Political Protest and Social Change
This book probes three issues about the linkage between political protests and social change. First, why do individuals participate in protest activities, including nonviolent movements and revolution
Foucalt's Paradox
Healing the Masses
Le discours comme pouvoir
Entendant monter le son des sanglots, il se leva et frla le rideau, pensant : "Karl Marx a crit Le Capital alors que ses enfants pleuraient autour de lui. Il a du tre un grand homme". Lu Xun, "Une famille heureuse" Yan'an face Tiananmen Les dernires illusions concernant la permanence de la rvolution chinoise ont vol en clats lors des vnements de juin 1989 sur la place Tiananmen 1 . Mais la ralit de cette rvolution avait disparu bien avant. Peut-t…
The politics of modernization
Ghana in Transition
Contents: PART I:1. The African Challenge to Democracy. PART II: 2. Historical Background. 3. The Physical and Economic Environment. PART III: 4. The Traditionally Oriented System. 5. Political Organization Among the Akan. 6. Patterns of Indirect Rule. 7. The Politics of Indirect Rule. 8. Towards Autonomy Within the Commonwealth. 9. The Structures of Secular Government. 10. Patterns of Gold Coast Politics. I I. The Legislative Assembly in Action.…
The Gold Coast in Transition
The Politics of Modernization
African One-Party States
The Role of Traditionalism in the Political Modernization of Ghana and Uganda
Social analysts have long been preoccupied with those features of traditional culture and belief which affect the direction of change and the receptivity of a society to innovation. In spite of the very considerable literature concerned with acculturation, there have been few efforts to examine different types of traditional systems with respect to the problems they pose for political modernization. We attempt this form of analysis here. The plan…
Political Development and the New Realism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Since the 1950s David Apter and Carl Rosberg have been among the leading American scholars in African studies. In this volume they, along with other specialists in the field, explore the configurations of African politics. With tentative efforts at a revival of democracy now taking place, it seems appropriate to reassess the theoretical debates and empirical themes that have characterised postwar Sub-Saharan African politics. Focusing on a new re…
A Comparative Method for the Study of Politics
Difficulties with the comparative study of politics include both limited utility of variables and inadequate core concepts. The results is that theory arising out of comparative studies is weak. The effort here represents an attempt to build a generalized model of three dimensions-social stratification, political groups, and government-which can be used for extensive comparison in sociological studies of politics. Each dimension is composed of a …
The Legitimization of Violence
Violence has become a ubiquitous phenomenon in our world. Occurring daily across the globe, violence is sparked by diverse and complicated societal and political factors. While certain aspects of violence such as terrorism have received increasing scrutiny in recent years, violence has rarely been examined as a political phenomenon in and of itself. Emphasizing the importance of memory, narrative, and political solidarity, The Legitimization of V…
Ghana's Independence
In becoming sub-Saharan Africa's first independent state fifty years ago, Ghana created high expectations for radical change throughout Africa-and beyond. David E. Apter explores the long-range effects of Ghana's revolution and the puzzling questions about President Kwame Nkrumah and the Convention People's Party that linger on
Some Reflections on the Role of a Political Opposition in New Nations
The role of a political opposition has proved ambiguous in most newly independent nations. New governments rarely see the necessity for a regular opposition party nor do they always accept the idea of opposition as a normal feature of government. There are many reasons why this is so. Most new nations have come into being after a prolonged period of struggle with colonial authorities which has caused nationalist leaders to monopolize loyalties. A…
Against the State
Theory and the Study of Politics
In the omnibus philosophy of an earlier day the pursuit of knowledge was the pursuit of science. Political science became a specialized discipline only very recently, and while it gained by its specialization it also suffered because of it. One of the nice tasks of modern political science is how to avoid the effects of descriptive detail as a substitute for theory and once again relate political phenomena to broader patterns of human activity, w…
The Chicago School and the roots of urban ethnography
Rethinking Development
Comparative Government
The Political Kingdom of Uganda. A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism
Bearing Witness
The role of foreign witnesses in describing exceptional historical events can contribute to the way those events unfold. Three examples serve to illustrate this: Edgar Snow, Anna Louise Strong and Agnes Smedley. At the start of the Chinese communist revolution each of these commentators offered personal testimony to and validation of what became a political myth and was elevated to the status of a state political religion with Mao the central fig…
Radicalization and Embourgeoisement
Radicalization and Embourgeoisement: Some Hypotheses for a Comparative Study of History Comparative studies are moving into a stage where the technology of research can be fitted together with the more abstract components of research design and applied to case materials. When such a fit is more secure it will be possible to treat many cases and classes of events diachronically and synchronically. This represents a change from an earlier period wh…
The Old Anarchism and the New-Some Comments
ANARCHISM AS A DOCTRINE HAS A PECULIAR FASCINATION FOR scholars. It both repels and attracts. It attracts because it embodies rage – the particular rage people have when they see man as an obstacle to his own humaneness. It is the ultimate statement of how outrageous the human condition can be. But it is precisely because man does not live by rage alone, but must master it by discovering proximate means to solving the ordinary problems of daily l…
Why Political Systems Change
I INTEND TO FOLLOW AN ABSTRACT LINE IN ANSWERING THE question why political systems change. That is, I am not concerned with the infinity of descriptive reasons why change occurs in any concrete case. It may be argued that now is not the time to bother with such a trivial approach, particularly when the language of crisis is what must be used, and also understood, and not the language of abstraction.I think the answer to this is that for too long…
On Clifford Geertz
when we were both students at Antioch College. He was a 1⁄2dgety, scratchy, given-to-mumbling sort of guy, in no way prepossessing although I knew on 1⁄2rst exchange that he was no ordinary student. Not that he was given over much to casual conversation, even in that high academic moment known as the Veteran Generation, when student discussions (or better, arguments), usually about politics, were pretty much the order of the day. Cliff tended not…
Are We All Latin Americans Now
TAKE AWAY ITS EXOTIC AND ITS MAGIC, THE MARVELLOUS despair ofCien Años de Soledad, the Latino troubadours like Atahualpa Yupanqui who sing of peasant rebellions, love of land and patrimony, and sudden death; take away as well the tourists, the scenery, the churches, the romantic rebels and the outrageouscaudillos, and indeed the whole vast mad throng of images which foreigners hold about Latin America, and we come to the heart of the matter, one …
The Premise of Parliamentary Planning
THE TEST OF A THEORY IS IN ITS APPLICATION. THE DIFFICULTY IS that in political theory, application is rarely a sufficient test. This is especially true of the kind of theory in which I am interested. It is abstract, highly generalized, and for this reason, tends to be illustrated by means of applications which neither prove nor disprove. A lack of clear guides for disproof is one of the more serious deficiencies of highly general theory. If that…
Ideology and Discontent
Africa and the Social Scientist
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Some Economic Factors in the Political Development of the Gold Coast
Is it possible for an underdeveloped area to construct democratic parliamentary organs as the means of allocating central political authority in a society, simultaneously widi the pursuit of rapid economic development? This is what we shall examine in the following discussion. That the problem is of significance can perhaps readily be conceded. It has implications for the colonial policy of those Western nations that still have large territorial …
British West Africa
Political Development in Uganda
Essay| May 01 1956 Political Development in Uganda David E. Apter David E. Apter Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University DAVID E. APTER, Ph.D., Princeton University, is at present an Assistant Professor of Political Science, North-western University. He held an Area Research Training Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council in 1952-1953 for research in the Gold Coast and is currently engaged in research in Uga…
The Gold Coast in Transition
Appointments and Staff Changes
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The Gold Coast in Transition
Theory and the Study of Politics
In the omnibus philosophy of an earlier day the pursuit of knowledge was the pursuit of science. Political science became a specialized discipline only very recently, and while it gained by its specialization it also suffered because of it. One of the nice tasks of modern political science is how to avoid the effects of descriptive detail as a substitute for theory and once again relate political phenomena to broader patterns of human activity, w…
South Africa. H. M. Robertson
A Comparative Method for the Study of Politics
Difficulties with the comparative study of politics include both limited utility of variables and inadequate core concepts. The results is that theory arising out of comparative studies is weak. The effort here represents an attempt to build a generalized model of three dimensions-social stratification, political groups, and government-which can be used for extensive comparison in sociological studies of politics. Each dimension is composed of a …
Nationalism, Government, and Economic Growth
Leadership and Power in the Chinese Community of Thailand. G. William Skinner
The Role of Traditionalism in the Political Modernization of Ghana and Uganda
Social analysts have long been preoccupied with those features of traditional culture and belief which affect the direction of change and the receptivity of a society to innovation. In spite of the very considerable literature concerned with acculturation, there have been few efforts to examine different types of traditional systems with respect to the problems they pose for political modernization. We attempt this form of analysis here. The plan…
The Politics of the Developing Areas. Gabriel Almond , James S. Coleman
A Survey of North West Africa (The Maghrib) . Nevill Barbour
From Empire to Nation. Rupert Emerson
Political Life
Migrants and Proletarians
The Political Kingdom of Uganda. A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism
The Political Kingdom in Uganda. A Study in Bureaucratic Nationalism
Some Reflections on the Role of a Political Opposition in New Nations
The role of a political opposition has proved ambiguous in most newly independent nations. New governments rarely see the necessity for a regular opposition party nor do they always accept the idea of opposition as a normal feature of government. There are many reasons why this is so. Most new nations have come into being after a prolonged period of struggle with colonial authorities which has caused nationalist leaders to monopolize loyalties. A…
African One-Party States
The Politics of Modernization
Theory and Reality in the Study of Development
The Politics of Modernization
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