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Donald Rothchild is professor of political science at the University of California at Davis and the coeditor (with Naomi Chazan) of The Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa (WestviewPress 1988).
The Precarious Balance
by Rothchild, Donald; Chazan, NaomiFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1988-01-31
Publisher(s): Westview Pr
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Table of Contents
| About the Book and Editors | p. iii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Reordering State-Society Relations Incorporation and Disengagement | p. 3 |
| Notes | p. 19 |
| The Changing State in Africa Historical and State-Centric Perspectives | p. 23 |
| The African Colonial State And Its Political Legacy | p. 25 |
| The State and the Development Of Capitalism in Africa Theoretical, Historical And Comparative Reflections | p. 67 |
| States Without Citizens An Emerging African Phenomenon | p. 100 |
| Notes | p. 116 |
| The Changing State in Africa Societal Perspectives | p. 119 |
| Patterns of State-Society Incorporation and Disengagement In Africa | p. 121 |
| The State, the Parallel Economy, And the Changing Structure Of Patronage Systems | p. 149 |
| Economic Disengagement And Class Formation in Zaire | p. 171 |
| Notes | p. 185 |
| State Responses To Disintegration and Withdrawal Adjustments in The Political Economy | p. 189 |
| Notes | p. 205 |
| Women and the State in Africa | p. 208 |
| Notes | p. 225 |
| The Changing State in Africa Government And International Perspectives | p. 231 |
| African States and The Politics of Inclusive Coalitions | p. 233 |
| Three Levels of State Reordering The Structural Aspects | p. 265 |
| Conclusion: the Atavistic Response | p. 276 |
| Notes | p. 279 |
| Redrawing the Map of Africa? | p. 282 |
| Notes | p. 304 |
| State of Crisis: International Constraints, Contradictions, and Capitalisms? | p. 307 |
| Conclusion | p. 323 |
| State and Society in Africa: Images and Challenges | p. 325 |
| About the Contributors | p. 343 |
| Index | p. 347 |
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