Revisiting Governance

Extended Statehood in Africa and Beyond

Bibliographic Data

ID11625203
AuthorsOlaf Bachmann (Olaf Bachmann is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London, corresponding author), Funmi Olonisakin (0000-0002-0787-6203, King's College London)
Year2020
Volume5
Issue1
Pages1-11
Publication date2020-12-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLeadership & Developing Societies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2399-2859 • E-ISSN: 2399-2859
PublisherAfrican Leadership Centre (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.47697/lds.3434800
OpenAlexW3113618589
LanguageEN
Citations received4

This article sets the theme for this issue. Weberian understanding of statehood has been valid and dominant for 100 years. However, it no longer reflects the complex dynamics of the superstructure resting on the social contract. One must acknowledge the widening frame of social and political influence and take it into account to make true sense of decades of failure in attempted state-building. Africa provides the scene for this argument as original focus of an ALC research project on the State in, and of, the Global South. Resulting from empirical evidence and analysis, this article not only offers the post-Weberian model of Extended Statehood, but also suggests its applicability within the realities of multilevel governance. Formal political order, even if remaining essential, has become a co-dependent element subject to fluctuating spheres of power. This research makes such dynamics visible

Argument (complex analysis · Corporate governance · Economic system · Economics · Element (criminal law · Epistemology · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Power (physics · Social contract · Sociology · State (computer science · Subject (documents · Theme (computing · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Law · Mathematics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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