Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa

Regionalism by Design

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ID19909431
AuthorsCatherine Boone (0000-0001-5324-7814, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author)
Year2024
Publication date2024-04-25
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueInequality and Political Cleavage in Africa (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781009441667
OpenAlexW4394930362
ISBN9781009441667
Open LibraryOL51813406M
Google BooksLv_5EAAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This pathbreaking work integrates African countries into broader comparative theories of how spatial inequality shapes political competition over the construction of markets, states, and nations. Existing literature on African countries has found economic cleavages, institutions, and policy choices to be of low salience in national politics. This book inverts these arguments. Boone trains our analytic focus on the spatial inequalities and territorial institutions that structure national politics in Africa, showing that regional cleavages find expression in both electoral competition and policy struggles over redistribution, sectoral investment, market integration, and state design. Leveraging comparative politics theory, Boone argues that African countries' regional and core-periphery tensions are similar to those that have shaped national economic integration in other parts of the world. Bringing together electoral and economic geography, the book offers a new and powerful map of political competition on the African continent

Cleavage (geology) · Development economics · Economics · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Geology · Human Rights and Development · Law · Mathematics · Paleontology

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