The State-Society Struggle : : Zaire in Comparative Perspective / / Thomas M. Callaghy.

Examines the attempted state formation and the state-society struggle in Zaire from a variety of theoretical and comparative perspectives.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1984]
©1984
Year of Publication:1984
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (516 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I: Comparative and Analytic Perspectives
  • 1. Mobutu's Zaire: An Authoritarian State in Comparative Perspective
  • 2. State Formation and the State-Society Struggle
  • 3. Absolutism and the State-Society Struggle
  • Part II: The State-Society Struggle in Zaire
  • 4. Zairian Absolutism and the State-Society Struggle
  • 5. Absolutist Territorial Administration: Mobutu's Prefects
  • 6. The Daily Tasks of Zairian Absolutism: Two Subregions
  • 7. Zairian Absolutism and the Coverover Process: Control of Local Collectivities
  • 8. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index