Naomi Chazan
Biographic Data
| ID | 90929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Chazan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Chazan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAZAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 197 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Patterns of State-Society Incorporation and Disengagement in Africa
This chapter looks at how social groups and formal institutional networks interconnect, and attempts to outline the main functional, human, situational and symbolic facets of the exchanges. It shows that the nature of African states is an outcome of the rhythm of relations between social entities and public institutions and officials. The human axis of state-society relations is molded by a notion of the state as a social entity which embodies a …
State and Society in Africa
Political processes in Africa display a complex image of governmental enfeeblement, growing societal activity beyond the reach of the state and heterogeneous forms of political reordering. State institutions in Africa have undergone a cycle of attempted consolidation, the entrenchment of hegemonic domination and deterioration, if not disintegration. The combination of centralization, proliferation, personalization and social inequality has, all c…
The Precarious Balance
Corporatism and Political Transactions
The political history of Ghana since independence appears to be both dualistic and paradoxical. On the one hand, Ghanaian politics have been punctuated by a series of ineffectual governmental attempts to mold social relations. On the other hand, Ghana has hardly dissolved into political incoherence or social anomie. Different types of corporatism have subsequently been associated with divergent cultural circumstances, stage of capitalist penetrat…
An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics
The paths of African states have diverged markedly since the termination of colonial rule. Nevertheless, Ghana, the first African state to achieve independence, epitomizes both the political gyrations and the overall stagnation common to many other countries on the continent. This work concentrates on the 1969–1982 period in Ghana, focusing on two interrelated facets of African politics: the decline of state power and authority, and adjustments t…
Women and the State in Africa
This chapter shows that assumption, asserting the particularity of the relationship of women to the state in Africa and consequently the need to study gender-state relations, and other social divisions, in order to understand both the nature of the state and the place of women in it. It is concerned with women's access to the apparatus of the state, the consequences of their underrepresentation in the state, and the mechanisms women have construc…
Precarious Balance
Disengagement from the State in Africa
This chapter investigates how individuals and groups in two African countries, Ghana and Guinea, have attempted to cope with the state by distancing themselves from it as a hedge against its instability and declining performance. Specifically, the chapter addresses three interrelated facets of the process of disengagement. First, what are the circumstances underlying the enfeeblement of the state and the reasons for initiating steps aimed at deta…
Israel at 70
Israel at 70:A Gender Perspective Naomi Chazan (bio) Israel is and has always been a gendered society. Since 1948, despite women's involvement in the formation of the new state and the myth of their full incorporation in its evolution, gender inequality has been an integral part of the dynamics of Israeli development. Gender gaps, however persistent, have taken on different forms over time. They provide a revealing guide to the changing state of …
Israeli Democracy and Identity under Attack
Israel’s democratic order is currently being assailed in a concerted effort to reformulate its priorities and redefine its identity. The civic nature of Israeli nationalism, as delineated by its founders, is being questioned by a growing neo-nationalist wave bent on displacing the universal and Jewish values of equality, justice, and tolerance ensconced in its declaration of independence with an ethnically driven worldview that links the connecti…
Bridging the Divide
Foreword - N. Chazan Foreword - H. Siniora Introduction - the Editors Reflections Palestinian-Israeli Peacebuilding: A Historical Perspective - E. Kaufman and W. Salem Civil Society and NGOs Building Peace in Israel - T. Hermann Civil Society and NGOs Building Peace in Palestine - M. Hassassian Israeli-Palestinian Joint Activities: Problematic Endeavor, Necessary Challenge - M. Dajani and G. Baskin Israeli-Palestinian Second Track Diplomacy - M. …
Women for Ending Israeli Occupation in Palestine and for Building Peace
This article does not have an abstract
The Knesset
Civil Society and the State in Africa
This seminal book examines the potential value of the concept of civil society for enhancing the current understanding of state society relations in Africa. The authors review the meanings of civil society in political philosophy, as well as alternative theoretical approaches to employing the concept in African settings.
Engaging the state
The fourth decade of African independence has coincided with a renewed interest in the nature of associational life on the continent. Observers, noting the number and variety of nongovernmental organizations, have viewed their current salience as a significant milestone in the restructuring of African political life. A major gap exists, however, between the grand theorizing on social organizations and the available empirical evidence. It is hardl…
Between Liberalism and Statism
Liberalization, Governance, and Political Space in Ghana
An Interview with Naomi Chazan
Ethnicity, Class, and the State
Our political interaction approach emphasizes the complexity of the group demands that the African state faces. It assumes a constant engagement of rival interests in the contemporary political arena, an interaction among various groups mobilized to secure public resources from those in authority. These groups—based on ethnicity, region, race, religion, generation, class, and so forth—may be distinct in terms of origins and appeals, but they shar…
Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa
Africa has undergone significant political, economic, and social change since the first edition of this book was published in early 1988. Now revised and updated throughout, this new edition includes current economic, social, and political data, as well as entirely new sections on the dismantling of apartheid, civil society, democratization and multiparty politics, economic reform and structural adjustment, and the prospects for African developme…
Democracy and Modernity
Democracy and Modernity presents a colloquium of scholars on the present state of democracy in many parts of the globe, in both developed and developing countries. Where does it stand firm, and where is it on shifting ground? What are the conditions necessary for the consolidation of democracy, and what difficulties face those countries where a stable democratic regime is still a hope for the future? How do the political traditions of a country's…
The Precarious Balance
The Early State in African Perspective
Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa
The Precarious Balance
Women and the State in Africa
This chapter shows that assumption, asserting the particularity of the relationship of women to the state in Africa and consequently the need to study gender-state relations, and other social divisions, in order to understand both the nature of the state and the place of women in it. It is concerned with women's access to the apparatus of the state, the consequences of their underrepresentation in the state, and the mechanisms women have construc…
The New Politics of Participation in Tropical Africa
Africa appears to be the midst of a participation explosion. Since 1978, four countries-Upper Volta, Mali, Ghana, and Nigeria-have returned to civilian rule by electoral means. Niger is currently contemplating a similar transition. A number of states, notably Kenya and Somalia, have held elections which key political personnel were changed through the ballot box.' In the fall of 1980, the Ivory Coast held the first competitive elections since ind…
An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics
The paths of African states have diverged markedly since the termination of colonial rule. Nevertheless, Ghana, the first African state to achieve independence, epitomizes both the political gyrations and the overall stagnation common to many other countries on the continent. This work concentrates on the 1969–1982 period in Ghana, focusing on two interrelated facets of African politics: the decline of state power and authority, and adjustments t…
Democracy in Developing Countries
Ethnicity and Politics in Ghana
Journal Article Ethnicity and Politics in Ghana Get access Naomi Chazan Naomi Chazan NAOMI CHAZAN is lecturer in political science and African studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and coordinator of the Africa Research Unit of the Truman Institute. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 3, Fall 1982, Pages 461–485, https://doi.org/10.2307/2149995 Published: 1…
African voters at the polls
An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics
Ghana
Politics in a "Non-Political" System
It hardly came as a surprise that Ghana's Supreme Military Council obtained, or at least claimed that it had received, the result it wanted at the 30 March 1978 referendum: endorsement of its proposal for Union Government (see Appendix B). In Ghana's unpredictable political climate, the SMC had spared no effort to make the outcome of the referendum as predictable as possible. The July 1977 decision to call a national referendum was the result of …
The Africanization of Political Change
IThe inability of most African states to find a political norm compatible with the exigencies of independence is by now a truism. The inherent lack of political order on the continent and the common recourse to political violence have been the subject of much debate among scholars and observers of African political events.1 Within the general framework of instability, it is apparent that there are many differences in political occurrences in seem…
Women for Ending Israeli Occupation in Palestine and for Building Peace
This article does not have an abstract
The Knesset
Satisfying Africa's Food Needs
Planning democracy in Africa
The Precarious Balance
The Precarious Balance
Political Culture and Socialization to Politics
The study of politics in Africa has undergone significant change in recent years. From an initial fascination with the mechanisms of politics at the state level, emphasis has shifted to an attempt to identify those basic factors underlying patterns of political organization and behavior. More attention is now being given to micropolitical analyses, and an effort is being made to relate political occurrences on the state level to local political c…
Israel at 70
Israel at 70:A Gender Perspective Naomi Chazan (bio) Israel is and has always been a gendered society. Since 1948, despite women's involvement in the formation of the new state and the myth of their full incorporation in its evolution, gender inequality has been an integral part of the dynamics of Israeli development. Gender gaps, however persistent, have taken on different forms over time. They provide a revealing guide to the changing state of …
Cultural Premises, Political Structures and Dynamics
Using the typical early pre-colonial African state as well as the Byzantine and Chinese empires as examples, the authors argue that the proper understanding of the state and, more generally, of political institutions and processes, requires that political actors and actions be studied in the context of the culture of which they are a part. The three case studies provided show that the impact of cultural factors on political processes, specificall…
The Limits of Leadership
As it enters its third decade of independence, Africa faces a troubled future. Its troubles are directly related to the growing pains associated with attempts to establish polities, economies, and societies under a second and third generation of leadership ... The third decade is a time for diplomacy, with all the art and skill that the calling can carry
The Precarious Balance
The Precarious Balance
The Fallacies of Pragmatism
Journal Article THE FALLACIES OF PRAGMATISM: ISRAELI FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS SOUTH AFRICA Get access NAOMI CHAZAN NAOMI CHAZAN Naomi Chazan is Senior Research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and spent the 1981–2 academic year at Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 82, Issue 327, April 1983, Pages 169–199, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a0975…
Patterns of Political Leadership
Political Culture and Socialization to Politics
The study of politics in Africa has undergone significant change in recent years. From an initial fascination with the mechanisms of politics at the state level, emphasis has shifted to an attempt to identify those basic factors underlying patterns of political organization and behavior. More attention is now being given to micropolitical analyses, and an effort is being made to relate political occurrences on the state level to local political c…
Ghanaian Political Studies in Transition
The Africanization of Political Change
IThe inability of most African states to find a political norm compatible with the exigencies of independence is by now a truism. The inherent lack of political order on the continent and the common recourse to political violence have been the subject of much debate among scholars and observers of African political events.1 Within the general framework of instability, it is apparent that there are many differences in political occurrences in seem…
African voters at the polls
Politics in a "Non-Political" System
It hardly came as a surprise that Ghana's Supreme Military Council obtained, or at least claimed that it had received, the result it wanted at the 30 March 1978 referendum: endorsement of its proposal for Union Government (see Appendix B). In Ghana's unpredictable political climate, the SMC had spared no effort to make the outcome of the referendum as predictable as possible. The July 1977 decision to call a national referendum was the result of …
The New Politics of Participation in Tropical Africa
Africa appears to be the midst of a participation explosion. Since 1978, four countries-Upper Volta, Mali, Ghana, and Nigeria-have returned to civilian rule by electoral means. Niger is currently contemplating a similar transition. A number of states, notably Kenya and Somalia, have held elections which key political personnel were changed through the ballot box.' In the fall of 1980, the Ivory Coast held the first competitive elections since ind…
The Limits of Leadership
As it enters its third decade of independence, Africa faces a troubled future. Its troubles are directly related to the growing pains associated with attempts to establish polities, economies, and societies under a second and third generation of leadership ... The third decade is a time for diplomacy, with all the art and skill that the calling can carry
Ethnicity and Politics in Ghana
Journal Article Ethnicity and Politics in Ghana Get access Naomi Chazan Naomi Chazan NAOMI CHAZAN is lecturer in political science and African studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and coordinator of the Africa Research Unit of the Truman Institute. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 3, Fall 1982, Pages 461–485, https://doi.org/10.2307/2149995 Published: 1…
An anatomy of Ghanaian politics
An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics
The Fallacies of Pragmatism
Journal Article THE FALLACIES OF PRAGMATISM: ISRAELI FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS SOUTH AFRICA Get access NAOMI CHAZAN NAOMI CHAZAN Naomi Chazan is Senior Research fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and spent the 1981–2 academic year at Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 82, Issue 327, April 1983, Pages 169–199, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a0975…
Recent Working Papers of the African Studies Center
An Anatomy of Ghanaian Politics
Disengagement from the State in Africa
Few questions have galvanized the attention of observers of African affairs in recent years as forcefully as the performance of the state on the continent. The debate on the nature of the state—its capabilities, weaknesses, external and societal connections, and impact—has come to occupy center stage in the field of African political studies. This overriding preoccupation emanates from the underlying assumption that the state constitutes a superi…
Ethnicity, Politics, and Development
A comparative analysis of ethnic patterns and politics in the developing world and their impact on economic and social development
Cultural Premises, Political Structures and Dynamics
Using the typical early pre-colonial African state as well as the Byzantine and Chinese empires as examples, the authors argue that the proper understanding of the state and, more generally, of political institutions and processes, requires that political actors and actions be studied in the context of the culture of which they are a part. The three case studies provided show that the impact of cultural factors on political processes, specificall…
The Early State in African Perspective
Democracy in Developing Countries
Myths and Politics in Precolonial Africa
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Ghana
Women and the State in Africa
Explores women's access to the apparatus of the state in Africa, the consequences of their underrepresentation, and the mechanisms they have evolved to cope with their slim hold on the levers of power
Planning democracy in Africa
Ghana
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