By Catherine Boone
Catherine Boone examines political regionalism in Africa and the way it impacts varieties of govt, and customers for democracy and improvement. Boone's learn is determined in the context of bigger theories of political improvement in agrarian societies. It contains a sequence of compelling case reviews that concentrate on areas inside of Senegal, Ghana, and C?te d'Ivoire and levels from 1930 to the current. The ebook can be of curiosity to readers fascinated by comparative politics, Africa, improvement, regionalism and federalism, and ethnic politics.
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Valley, 1970+ Korhogo 1970+ [Dagomba, N. Ghana] NON-INCORPORATION Senegal R. Valley, 1940–1960s USURPATION Asante ADMINISTRATIVE OCCUPATION ˆ d’Ivoire Southern Cote Lower Casamance Korhogo, 1952–1960s [Sine] VI. Research Design and Outline This book’s core chapters describe and explain patterns of institutional choice across rural zones of West Africa. ) The main timeframe is the 1940s through the early 1980s, which in most African countries was the high-water mark of state building under consolidating, developmentalist regimes.
Landlords who mediate their tenants’ or sharecroppers’ access to land have often been able to leverage this relationship into one of broad political domination over the farmers whose livelihoods are so vulnerable to their discretion. Heaven 12 13 For explicitly comparative work, see for example Moore Jr. 1966: especially 468–77; Anderson 1974; Brenner 1976, 1982; and much of the work cited in the preceding footnote. Here I follow Hechter (1983, 1987) who defines “group solidarity” in terms of coercive and compliance mechanisms.
The analysis that follows shows that in Africa’s zones of peasant exportcrop production, regionally specific configurations of class and communal 20 28 Mafeje (1991:85–92, 102–3) reviews the “modes of production debate” in African studies. Mapping Political Topography in Africa structure had patterned effects on the interests and bargaining power of rural elites, making them more or less powerful, threatening, and useful to the new African regimes that came to power around 1960. The effects can be summarized as follows.