Political Topographies of the African State
Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3910690 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael G Schatzberg |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 546 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice, Catherine Boone, 2003 |
| Venue | The International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4129047 |
| OpenAlex | W1914296565 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 198 |
Catherine Boone examines political regionalism in Africa and how it affects forms of government, and prospects for democracy and development. Boone's study is set within the context of larger theories of political development in agrarian societies. It features a series of compelling case studies that focus on regions within Senegal, Ghana, and Cote d'Ivoire and ranges from 1930 to the present. The book will be of interest to readers concerned with comparative politics, Africa, development, regionalism and federalism, and ethnic politics. Multi-country study of politics and political development in Africa. Book places African political development in the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian studies. Study combines macrosociology with choice-theoretic perspectives in Political Science
Political authority · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · International Development and Aid · Land Rights and Reforms · Law
Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries
The Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de Casamance
Legislative Development in Africa
The Institutional Origins of Communal Violence
Renegotiating the periphery
Exiles and Arms
Dual agent of transition
Sovereignty, territory and authority
Africa and the Theoretical Peace in IR
Do Local Power-Sharing Deals Reduce Ethnopolitical Hostility? The Effects of ‘Negotiated Democracy’ in a Devolved Kenya
Entangled political histories of twentieth-century West Africa
Religious Roots of the Casamance Conflict and Finding a Path Towards its Resolution
Why We Need a New Theory of Government
States, Insurgents, and Wartime Political Orders
Subnational Adaptation Finance Allocation
Advancing Comparative Climate Change Politics
Customary vs Private Property Rights? Dynamics and Trajectories of Vernacular Land Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
West African Insurgencies in Agrarian Perspective
Political Marginalization, Climate Change, and Conflict in African Sahel States
Decentralisation and local governance in Mozambique
Explaining divergent responses to ethnic exclusion
From rural rebellions to urban riots
Predatory elites, rents and cocoa
Playing the immigration card
Grafted or crafted
Libya’s Local Elites and the Politics of Alliance Building
Policy Decentralization and the Endogenous Effects of State Traditions
When Decentralization Leads to Recentralization
Federalism in Africa
Engaging with elections
Democratization in clan-based societies
Economic foundations of subnational authoritarianism
The geography of regime support and political violence
Fighting for a name on the ballot
The growth of artistic nationalism in Senegal
Dreams and Nightmares of Nationhood
Demography, diversity and nativism in contemporary Africa
Hobbesian Hierarchy
The anticipatory politics of dispossession in a Senegalese mining negotiation
The differential demand for indirect rule
Decentralisation and Water Resources Management in the Indian Himalayas
Local Regimes, Sub-national Governance and the ‘Power Vertical’ in Contemporary Russia
Fording differences? Conditions mitigating water insecurity in the Niger River Basin
Political hierarchies and landscapes of conflict across Africa
Territorial origins of center-seeking and self-determination claims in Africa
Subnational governance and conflict
Climate triggers
Devolution, shifting centre-periphery relationships and conflict in northern Kenya
The devil is in the details
Between the Cracks
Bangladesh
Crafting Institutional Reforms for International Development
Adversely Incorporated yet Moving up the Social Ladder?’
Conceptualizing State Strength
El análisis subnacional
La Parábola Del Empresario
Histoire économique de l'Afrique
Listening to their silence? The political reaction of affected communities to large-scale land acquisitions
Re-spacing African drylands
Land reform by default
Land grab' as development strategy? The political economy of agricultural investment in Ethiopia
Leader and villager behavior
Rebel group formation in Africa
Indirect colonial rule and the salience of ethnicity
The social costs of titling land
The Effect of State–Local Complementarity and Local Governance on Development
Patronage or policy? The politics of property rights formalization in Kenya
Transfer preferences of bureaucrats and spatial disparities in local state presence
The Mystery of Capital Formation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Revolutionising Local Politics? Radical Experiments in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Uganda in the 1980s
So many ‘Africanists’, so few Africans
Scales of Conflict Research
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
The glocal dynamics of land reform in natural resource sectors
Land governance for extractivism and capitalist farming in Africa
Rural bias in African electoral systems
Battles over boundaries
Power calculations and political decentralisation in African post-conflict states
Estructura Económica Y Política Subnacional en Argentina
The Institutional Basis of Intercommunal Order
Autochthony
Participation in international human rights NGOs
Social elites, popular discontent, and the limits of cooptation
Boundary Control
King Makers
National Design and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
Can America Nation-Build
Electoral Handouts as Information
Electoral Consequences of Colonial Invention
State Infrastructural Power
Why Political Competition Can Increase Patronage
Containing Conflict or Instigating Unrest? A Test of the Effects of State Infrastructural Power on Civil Violence
Introduction
A Micro-Geography of State Extractive Power
Transformation from Below in Bangladesh
On the Edge of the Law
The Political Economy of State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
How Does Armed Conflict Shape Investment? Evidence from the Mining Sector
Redistributive Political Transitions
A Signaling Theory of Distributive Policy Choice
Political Order in Changing Societies
Rulers of empire
The Formation of national States in Western Europe
Stealing the state
Making a market
Social classes in agrarian societies
The quills of the porcupine
Corruption and state politics in Sierra Leone
Chiefs and politicians
States and ruling classes in postcolonial Africa
African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979–1999
Institutions and Social Conflict
Fathers Work for Their Sons
Lineages of the Absolutist State
Creating Political Order
The Creation of tribalism in southern Africa
Neo-colonialism in West Africa
The enigma of colonialism
Principles of Group Solidarity
Governing the Commons
The Calculus of Consent
No Condition Is Permanent
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Subversive Institutions
State Power and Social Forces
Structuring Politics
The Social Origins of Political Regionalism
Historical institutionalism in comparative politics
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Rice‐burning and the green revolution in northern Ghana
State building in the African countryside
Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics
After the Deluge
Ethnicity in Ghana
Muslim Brotherhoods and Politics in Senegal
Spaces of Capital
The Politics of Decentralization in Latin America
Of Rule and Revenue
Évolution et Réformes Foncières de L'afrique Noire Francophone
Internal unit demarcation and national identity
Democratic decentralisation and institutional performance
Gaps in the debates about agriculture in Senegal, Tanzania and Mozambique
The Caisse de Stabilisation in the coffee sector of the Ivory Coast
On the state, democratization and some conceptual problems
The Senegal River Valley
Hausaland Divided
Les plantations européennes en Côte d'Ivoire
West African Wager
The Economies of West Africa
Traders without Trade
Peasants against State
An agenda for the study of institutions
In a Moment of Enthusiasm
The International Political Economy of Coffee
Cooperatives and Development
West Africa Under Colonial Rule
Chiefs and African States
Ivory Coast
Le monde des affaires s n galais
Trade, taxes, and tribute
Businessmen in politics
The origins of agricultural policy in Ivory Coast 1960–86
African Successes
Ghana
Some Origins of Nationalism in East Africa
The Emergence of Capitalist Relations in South Asante Cocoa-Farming, C. 1916–33
The Development of cotton in Northern Ivory Coast, 1910–1965
Social and Economic Factors in the Muslim Revolution in Senegambia
La Fin de la Chefferie En Guinee
Unhappy Valley. Conflict in Kenya and Africa. Book One
Ritual and Masking Traditions in Jola Men's Initiation
Freedom and Authority in French West Africa
Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
Landlords and Brokers
Regional Modes of Production and Patterns of State Formation in Western Europe
The Populist Road to Market Reform
The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship
The Comrades and the Countryside
What Makes Rational Peasants Revolutionary? Dilemma, Paradox, and Irony in Peasant Collective Action
The Concentration of Authority
Senegal's Empty Elections
Francophone Africa in Flux
An Alternative for Africa
Democracy’s Future
Political opposition in Senegal
Preemptive Strike
Military Officers and Political Leadership
The Political Consequences of Local Electoral Systems
Institutions, Context, and Outcomes
Single Party States and Agricultural Policies
The Social Origins of Ivoirian Exceptionalism
From Comparative Public Policy to Political Economy
L'analyse politique de la décentralisation
Social Structure and Political Behavior of Senegalese Elites
Patrimonialism, Administrative Effectiveness and Economic Development in Côte d'Ivoire
Reining in the Marabouts? Democratization and Local Governance in Senegal
Decolonization, the Colonial State, and Chieftaincy in the Gold Coast
Democratizing a (Quasi) Democracy
Enchantment and Disenchantment
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |