Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa (California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy) - Couverture souple

Bates, Robert H. H.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520060148 ISBN 13 : 9780520060142

Editeur : University of California Press, 1987

Synopsis

The essays in this volume represent a dialogue between theory and data. The theory is drawn from a branch of contemporary political economy which can also be labeled the collective-choice school. The data are drawn from Africa. The book extends the methods of reasoning developed in collective choice from their original base-the advanced industrial democracies-to new territory; the literature on rural Africa. Such as extension challenges the power of this form of political economy. It also enriches it, for the central questions which motivate the contemporary study of political economy are often addressed with unique clarity in the scholarship on rural Africa.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies. In the pre-colonial era what were the sources of order in societies without states? And what were the origins of 'traditional' states in Africa? In the colonial period, what caused the divergent patterns of agricultural development? And what were the issues that drove the peasantry into the rebellions which brought an end to colonial rule? Since independence what has been the fate of the African peasantry? What has been the content of the agricultural policies adopted by the governments of Africa? And how can these policies be accounted for? In answering these questions, the book explores various forms of explanation and advances a form of political economy based upon rational-choice analysis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520060148
• ISBN 13: 9780520060142
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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