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Tables of Contents for Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables
ix
Map of Africa
xi
Introduction
1
4
The Diversity of African Politics: Trends and Approaches
5
32
Independent Africa: Trends and Patterns
6
8
Approaches to the Study of African Politics
14
9
The Political Interaction Framework
23
14
PART I THE STRUCTURES OF POLITICS
State Institutions and the Organization of the Public Arena
37
38
The Concept of the State in Africa
38
4
The Structural Foundations of African States: The Colonial Legacy
42
4
Constructions of the Public Arena Since Independence
46
22
States and State Variety in Africa: Some Implications
68
7
Social Groupings
75
32
Social Groups and Social Process
76
3
The Organization of Social Life
79
21
Social Networks and Social Trends
100
7
Ethnicity, Class, and the State
107
30
Ethnicity and Ethnic Group
108
4
The Ethnic Intermediary's Critical Role
112
7
African Class Cleavages and Social Conflicts
119
8
Class and Ethnicity as Situational Variables
127
10
PART 2 POLITICAL PROCESS AND POLITICAL CHANGE
Regimes in Independent Africa
137
22
Regime Evolution in Postcolonial Africa
139
2
Regime Types and Their Variations
141
14
Regime Types and Political Process
155
4
High Politics: The Procedures and Practices of Government
159
38
The Politics of the Center: Decisionmaking and the Rules of the Political Game
160
16
The Politics of Social Relations
176
14
Consolidation and Maintenance of the Political Center: Some Trends
190
7
Deep Politics: Political Response, Protest, and Conflict
197
24
Elite Conflicts
198
3
Factional Conflicts
201
5
Communal Conflicts
206
5
Mass Conflicts
211
2
Popular Conflicts
213
3
The Interplay of Political Conflicts
216
5
Political Transitions and Patterns of Change
221
18
Modes of Political Change
222
8
Patterns of Political Interaction
230
9
PART 3 POLITICAL ECONOMY
Coping with Transformation: Approaches to Development
239
66
The Range of Choice
240
4
Africa in the World Economy
244
19
Regimes, Ideology, and Development Strategies
263
12
Sectoral Policies
275
30
Coping with Change: Crisis and Attempted Reform
305
56
Managing Dependence: National Strategies
306
1
Strategies Toward Foreign Capital
307
3
Collective Strategies: Regional Integration
310
9
Africa and North-South Relations
319
6
Africa's Economic Crisis
325
8
Structural Adjustment and the International Financial Institutions
333
16
Economic Reform and Democratization
349
12
PART 4 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Inter-African Relations
361
60
Trans-Saharan Africa
364
23
Central Africa
387
7
Southern Africa
394
11
Inter-African Politics in the Waning Cold War Era
405
3
Inter-African Politics in the Post--Cold War Environment
408
6
Conclusion
414
7
Africa in World Politics
421
44
Africa and Europe
422
9
Soviet-U.S. Competition in Africa
431
18
Detente in Africa
449
2
Africa in the New Multipolar System
451
4
Conclusion: Africa Among the Lesser Powers
455
10
PART 5 POLITICAL FUTURES
South Africa: The Possibilities and Limits of Transforming State and Society
465
26
The Historical Formation of a Dual Society
466
7
Apartheid's Contradictions and Black Resistance
473
4
Negotiations for a New Constitution
477
7
The Challenge of Transformation
484
7
Africa in the Twenty-First Century
491
8
Appendix 1: Acronyms
499
4
Appendix 2: Changes in Country Names
503
2
Appendix 3: Basic Political Data
505
22
Index
527
18
About the Book
545