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Title: African Economies and the Politics of Permanent Crisis, 1979-1999 by Nicolas van de Walle ISBN: 0-521-00836-0 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Puzzle of African Exceptionalism
Comment: Nicolas van de Walle's prize-winning book explains the puzzle of African exceptionalism with an intelligent and nuanced framework. Focusing on the politics behind the seemingly permanent crisis, van de Walle explains the pervasive rise of neopatrimonial rule on the continent -- a political system that depends on patronage and clientelism, and which is a feature of many low-income, largely subsistence-based polities around the world. Van de Walle's dual training in economics and political science, and his extensive experience living and working in many of the countries of the sub-continent, make this book deep, broad, and credible. I've recommended it to many who want to understand what is behind their t.v. screens: why has poverty grown in Africa? Why is this the region most troubled by small-scale political wars? Its scholarly but accessible style, complimented by extensive footnotes and references, also make this an excellent book for students.
Rating: 1
Summary: How the Academy Fails Africa
Comment: This book represents Nicolas van de Walle's attempts to characterise Africa's political economy in the era of 'partial reform' in comparative perspective. Unfortunately, this book which could have fulfilled an important lacunae in the field is largely a poorly thought out academic hustle. The analysis is full of mutually contradictory statements, and given the author's evident lack of familiarity with the cases he is comparing with S.S.A. his comparative analysis lacks any bite or merit. Nowhere is this more clear than in his comparisons between Africa and Latin America. Throughout the author cites and misrepresents work with which he is clearly unfamiliar and large sections appear to be plagiarised from uncited sources. The author also demonstrates a lack of familiarity with rudimentary social science concepts and cannot even distinguish for example between an African regime and an African State. These failings are glaring, and the book's attempts to correct theoretical misunderstandings about the autonomy of the African state are rendered irrelevant. Throughout the book, the author's personal value judgements are not accompanied by empirical support particularly where the author engages in the critique of other significant monographs in the discipline. For these reasons, despite sweeping pretense and fanfare the monograph fails to make a significant theoretical or empiraical contribution to the disciplines of comparative and African political economy.
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Title: States and Power in Africa by Jeffrey Herbst ISBN: 0691010285 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 06 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures by David K. Leonard, Scott Straus ISBN: 1588261166 Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Africa Works: Disorder As Political Instrument by Patrick Chabal, Jean-Pascal Daloz ISBN: 0253212871 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Africa in Chaos by George B. N. Ayittey, George B.N. Ayittey ISBN: 0312217870 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Criminalization of the State in Africa by Jean-Francois Bayart, Stephen Ellis, Beatrice Hibou ISBN: 0253212863 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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