Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa / / Naomi Chazan, Robert A. Mortimer, Peter Lewis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Chazan, Naomi,; Lewis, Peter,; Mortimer, Robert A. ,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (548 p.)

The authors provide a basic knowledge of political events; political structures, processes, problems, and trends; political economy; and international relations. Clearly organized charts offer easy access to current political, economic, and social data. This edition includes entirely new chapters on political economy and South Africa; as well as revised discussions of civil society, democratic transitions, decentralization, structural adjustment, and Africa in the world economy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Map of Africa -- Introduction -- I The Diversity of African Politics: Trends and Approaches -- PART I THE STRUCTURES OF POLITICS -- 2 State Institutions and the Organization of the Public Arena -- 3 Social Groupings -- 4 Ethnicity, Class, and the State -- PART 2 POLITICAL PROCESS AND POLITICAL CHANGE -- 5 Regimes in Independent Africa -- 6 High Politics: The Procedures and Practices of Government -- 7 Deep Politics: Political Response, Protest, and Conflict -- 8 Political Transitions and Patterns of Change -- PART 3 POLITICAL ECONOMY -- 9 Coping with Transformation: Approaches to Development -- 10 Coping with Change: Crisis and Attempted Reform -- PART 4 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- 11 Inter-African Relations -- 12 Africa in World Politics -- PART 5 POLITICAL FUTURES -- 13 South Africa: The Possibilities and Limits of Transforming State and Society -- 14 Africa in the Twenty-First Century -- Appendix 1: Acronyms -- Appendix 2: Changes in Country Names -- Appendix 3: Basic Political Data -- Index -- About the Book