The Politics of Development in Botswana : : A Model for Success? / / Louis A. Picard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Picard, Louis A. ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables and Figures --; A Note on the Usage of Terms --; Preface --; 1 The State and Society --; 2 The Tswana Polities and British Colonialism in Southern Africa --; 3 Bureaucrats and Chiefs: Contradictions of Indirect Rule --; 4 Recruitment in the Civil Service: The Oxbridge Model, Localization, and the Protectorate --; 5 Colonial Economic Policy: Benign Neglect or Structural Underdevelopment? --; 6 Crisis and Containment: The Limits of Nationalism in the Bureaucratic State --; 7 Independent Botswana: Containment, Electoral Mobilization, and the Multiparty System --; 8 Local Government Institutions: Patterns of Autonomy and Control --; 9 The Politics of Human Resource Constraints --; 10 Changing Rural Development Priorities in a Growth Economy --; 11 Conclusion --; Selected Glossary --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685859534; 9783110784268
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685859534
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Louis A. Picard.

Examines the politics of development in Botswana and explores the extent to which the country can serve as a model for other developing states.