Göran Hydén

Biographic Data

ID3585772
NAMEGöran Hydén
GIVEN NAMESGöran
FAMILY NAMEHydén
SIGNATUREHYDEN G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Florida
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS67
TOTAL CITATIONS269
AUTHOR COUNT65
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX7

  • Theorizing in Comparative Politics: Democratization in Africa

    Open AccessGöran HydénBOOKTheorizing in Comparative Politics2024

    This book addresses a pertinent issue in comparative politics: how can the discipline do analytical justice to regions of the world that differ historically from the Western experience? For decades the West has served as a baseline against which all other regions are assessed, most recently in studies of democratization. Structural differences between regions have been ignored in favour of explanations based on human agency and institutions. In T…

  • Communications and Democratization in Africa

    Göran Hydén, Michael LeslieCHAPTERMedia and Democracy in Africa2017

    There is a rapidly growing literature on democratization in Africa but very little of it deals with the role that communications, or the media, play. This is all the more surprising given that social movements and other voluntary associations, that have played a significant role in democratizing countries in regions such as Latin America and Eastern Europe, have been quite weak in African countries. Therefore, our assumption is that media have be…

  • The Media and the Two Waves of Democracy

    Göran Hydén, Charles OkigboCHAPTERMedia and Democracy in Africa2017

    Relations between the media and democratization are complex and interwoven. It is impossible to disentangle them all. Any student of this subject matter is compelled to make a choice of focusing on some part of it rather than trying to rein in everything. This chapter is no exception. We have made the following choices in structuring this discussion so as to make it analytically appetizing and interesting. First of all, we are looking at the medi…

  • The decentralization experience in Africa: Beyond donor-driven approaches

    Göran HydénARTICLEAfrica Review2017

    Under the auspices of the international donor community, decentralization has been pursued in the last couple of decades as a global mantra, albeit often with more attention to prescriptive models than political reality. This is particularly the case with Africa where donor-driven approaches have produced few sustainable outcomes because the context-specific situation in these countries has been ignored. This paper argues that the donors, in addi…

  • Media and Democracy in Africa

    Göran Hydén, Michael Leslie et al.BOOKMedia and Democracy in Africa2017Cited by: 31

    MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA provides the first comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the role of the media in political change in sub-Saharan Africa. The central argument of the volume is th

  • Beyond the Liberal Democracy Paradigm: A Fresh Look at Power and Institutions

    Open AccessGöran HydénARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2016Cited by: 2References: 11

    Compared to political developments in Eastern Europe and Latin America, democratization in sub-Saharan Africa has been more problematic and uneven. Looking at the performance in four subregions-central Africa, East Africa, southern Africa, and West Africa-yields no convincing evidence of a "wave" of democratization; countries next to each other differ considerably with regard to their Freedom House scores. This does not mean that democratization …

  • Rethinking justice and institutions in African peacebuilding

    Göran HydénARTICLEThird World Quarterly2015References: 15

    This article argues that conflicts in Africa need to be understood in the context of local conceptions of justice, which differ from those of the liberal peace model. Justice in African society is based on the notion of reciprocity which, when practised, tends to lead to solutions that resemble prisoner dilemma games. Because agreements are more like truces than true peace agreements they are easily abandoned when the costs of adhering are higher…

  • The Ever-Changing Nature of Development Research: The Newest Challenge

    Göran HydénARTICLEForum for Development Studies2014References: 6

  • Barriers to Party Systems in Africa: The Movement Legacy

    Göran HydénARTICLEAfrica Review2011

  • Where Administrative Traditions are Alien: Implications for Reform in Africa

    Open AccessGöran HydénCHAPTERTradition and Public Administration2010

    Institutions are not independent of society but are a product of underlying social forces and structures. Knowing where institutions come from, therefore, becomes a necessary first task. Adopting such a position differs from approaches to the study of public administration that focus on technical or managerial issues internal to specific organizations. The technocratic way of approaching public sector reform in Africa has been dominant, leaving a…

  • After the Paris Declaration: Taking on the Issue of Power

    Open AccessGöran HydénARTICLEDevelopment Policy Review2008

    The new approach to assisting developing countries inspired by the Paris Declaration emphasises greater recipient control over the funds provided, thus confining donors’influence to upstream points in the policy process, where political aspects of development co‐operation become more important. Understanding better the role that power plays in the aid relationship will be critical to the implementation of the Declaration. This article shows how t…

  • The Economy of Affection and the Moral Economy in Comparative Perspective

    Open AccessGöran HydénARTICLEJournal of African Studies2007

    This paper takes stock of what the two conferences in Tanzania on the economy of affection and the moral economy in Africa have taught us about these forms of economy. It places the African cases in a comparative perspective using references to both Asia and Europe to illustrate the ubiquity of the moral economy phenomenon. The paper tries to illustrate what is common in the economy of affection and the moral economy but also what makes them diff…

  • L'économie de l'affection et l'économie morale dans une perspective comparative: Qu'avons-Nous Appris

    Göran HydénARTICLERevue du MAUSS2007Cited by: 2References: 11

    On peut trouver à l'économie morale trois origines et en discuter des éléments de comparaison. La première, d'Asie du Sud-Est (James Scott, 1976), affirme principalement que le paysan manifeste un comportement économique spécifique centré sur la subsistance parce que, contrairement à l'entreprise capitaliste, il est à la fois une unité de consommation et une unité de production. La deuxième vient des pays industrialisés avec pour figure clé Karl …

  • Beyond Governance: Bringing Power into Policy Analysis

    Göran HydénARTICLEForum for Development Studies2006Cited by: 4References: 6

    This article discusses how power may be fruitfully brought into policy analysis in order to make efforts to support development and poverty alleviation in developing countries. It begins by asking why power has been left out of development policy analysis for such a long time and proceeds by discussing what a power analysis entails. The third section provides a framework for how power can be brought into policy analysis as an independent and depe…

  • Central Africa: Crises, Reform and Reconstruction (review)

    Göran HydénARTICLEAfrica Today2006

    Reviewed by: Central Africa: Crises, Reform and Reconstruction Goran Hyden Fomin, E. S. D., and John Forje, editors. 2005. Central Africa: Crises, Reform and Reconstruction. Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. 258 pp. $29.95 (paper). This is a multidisciplinary book, which addresses two major sets of issues pertinent to Central Africa: (1) nation-building and regional integration, and (2) democratization and g…

  • Africa's Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging by Francis B. Nyamnjoh

    Open AccessGöran HydénARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly2006

    Journal Article Africa's Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging by Francis B. Nyamnjoh Get access Africa’s Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging by Francis B. Nyamnjoh. London, Zed Books, 2005. 320 pp. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $25.00. Goran Hyden Goran Hyden University of Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 121, Issue 2, Summer 2006, Pages 358–359, http…

  • African Politics in Comparative Perspective

    Nicolas Van De Walle, Göran HydénARTICLEForeign Affairs2006

  • Development Projects for a New Millennium

    Open AccessGöran HydénARTICLEPerspectives on Politics2005

    Development Projects for a New Millennium. By Anil Hira and Trevor Parfitt. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004. 216p. $74.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. This book fills a vacuum for those interested in development policy and administration. Development administration has been a subfield very much in limbo for the past two decades as the market and civil society have attracted prime interest among development analysts and practitioners. Anil Hira and Trevor Par…

  • Making Sense of Governance: Empirical Evidence from Sixteen Developing Countries

    Göran Hydén, Julius Court et al.BOOKMaking Sense of Governance2004

    Although governance has been the focus of a considerable body of literature on democratic transitions and consolidation, data to support the claim that the concept is a useful one has been lacking. Now, however, Making Sense of Governance clearly shows the utility of research on governance, presenting empirical evidence from sixteen developing countries.The authors focus on six arenas: civil, political, and economic society and the executive, bur…

  • Better Governance and Public Policy: Capacity Building for Democratic Renewal in Africa

    Joseph Ayee, Julius Court et al.BOOKBetter Governance and Public Policy2003

    Exploring the relationship between governance and development policy, the authors of this collection describe recent governance changes in a range of African countries, analyze the consequences of those changes for institutional reforms, and highlight the challenges involved in consolidating ongoing processes of economic liberalization and democratization

  • Development and Democracy: What Have We Learned and How

    Ole Elgstrom, Göran HydénBOOKDevelopment and Democracy2002

    How much is democracy dependent upon supportive economic and social conditions? This question, which has occupied political scientists and sociologists for almost half a century, has attracted special attention in the last ten years as more and more countries have engaged in efforts to democratise. This volume is the first collection to take stock of current literature and put it into context. This book highlights the principal new gains of knowl…

  • Africanists' Contributions to POlitical Science

    Open AccessGöran HydénARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2001Cited by: 1

    In this brief overview, I argue that Africanist contributions to the study of politics have not been insignificant. While Africanists, like many other comparativists, have felt uncomfortable about the imperialist aspirations of rational choice, they increasingly see the future as a time when theoretical and methodological pluralism will prevail

  • Public Administration in Africa: Main Issues and Selected Country Studies

    Open AccessGöran HydénARTICLETransforming Anthropology2001

    Public Administration in Africa: Main Issues and Selected Country Studies. Edited by Ladipo Adamolekun. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. xix. 415 pp. (Cloth US$70.00)

  • Top-Down Democratization in Tanzania

    Open AccessGöran HydénARTICLEJournal of democracy1999Cited by: 22References: 1

    Top-Down Democratization in Tanzania Göran Hydén (bio) A little over 30 years ago, Julius K. Nyerere, Tanzania's first president, issued his "Arusha Declaration," launching an experiment with an African form of socialism that he called ujamaa. The country underwent a major political and economic reorientation, and for many people—inspired by Nyerere's eloquence and his personal incorruptibility—Tanzania came to serve as a model of development for…

  • Civil society, social capital, and development: Dissection of a complex discourse

    Open AccessGöran HydénARTICLEStudies in Comparative…1997Cited by: 22References: 16