The African State in Transition

348 Pages·1987·31.907 MB·English

by  Zaki Ergas (eds.)

THE AFRICAN STATE IN TRANSITION
Also by Zaki Ergas
LA TROISIEME METAMORPHOSE DE L AFRIQUE NOIRE: Education et
Developpement Rural au Kenya et en Tanzanie
LE PROJET DE LA VOLTA, GHANA: Une Etude Interdisciplinare du
Developpement
The African State
in Transition
Edited by
Zaki Ergas
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-1-349-18888-8 ISBN 978-1-349-18886-4 (eBook)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-18886-4
© Zaki Ergas 1987
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1987 978-0-333-41566-5
All rights reserved. For information, write:
Scholarly & Reference Division,
St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010
First published in the United States of America in 1987
ISBN 978-0-312-00768-3
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The African state in transition.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Africa-Politics and government-1960-
2. State, The. I. Ergas, Zaki.
JQ1872.A35 1987 320.96 87-4727
ISBN 978-0-312-00768-3
To David and Jeremy
Contents
List of Tables
IX
Notes on the Editor and Contributors
X
Acknowledgements xiii
Prologue xv
Introduction
Zaki Ergas 1
PART I THE THEORY
1 Reflections on State-Centrism as Ideology in Africa
Harvey Glickman 25
2 Class, Political Domination and the African State
Nelson Kasfir 45
3 The Managerial State in Africa: A Conflict Coalition
Perspective
Otwin Marenin 61
4 The State as Lame Leviathan: The Patrimonial
Administrative State in Africa
Thomas M. Callaghy 87
5 Hegemony and State Softness: Some Variations in
Elite Responses
Donald Rothchild 117
6 The Dynamics of Factionalism in Contemporary Africa
Rene Lemarchand 149
PART II THE PRACTICE
7 The Crisis of the Socialist State in Africa
Marina S. Ottaway 169
VII
viii Contents
8 The Military and the State in Africa: Problems of
Political Transition
Claude E. Welch, lr 191
9 Foreign Exchange and the Economic Crisis in Africa
Carol Lancaster 217
10 The Politics of Agricultural Pricing in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Robert H. Bates 237
11 Basic Human Needs and the African State
Robert L. Curry, lr 263
12 In Search of Development in Africa
Zaki Ergas 295
Index 331
List of Tables
601 The logical continuum: 'faction' to 'party' 153
602 Trends in the evolution of factional aggregates 154
80Al Forcible changes of government in Africa, 1958-84 214
901 Net resources flows to Africa 221
1001 Estimates of the rate of overvaluation of domestic
currencies, 1979 239
1002 Patterns of market intervention for food crops 240
1003 Index numbers of agricultural exports, total value 243
10.4 Inflation of marketing costs 246
1005 Probability of government regulation: retail price of
maize 253
1006 Probability of government regulation: producer price
of maize 253
1007 Probability of government regulation: retail price of
rice 254
1008 Roster of political actors: agricultural pricing policy
intervention 255
11.1 Projected target population of global BHN program
to the year 2000 274
11.2 Recurrent costs of global BHN program, 1980-2000 275
IX
Notes on the Editor and
Contributors
Zaki Ergas is Research Associate at the Institute of International
Studies, University of California at Berkeley. He holds a doctorate in
political economy from Geneva University in Switzerland and was
affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Georgetown
University in Washington. His publications include two books (in
French) and more than a dozen articles in academic journals. He is
currently working to develop a new journal on African studies and
writing a book on South Africa.
Robert H. Bates is Henry R. Luce Professor in the Department of
Political Science at Duke University. His most recent books include
Markets and States in Tropical Africa (1981) and Essays on the
Political Economy of Rural Africa (1983). He is currently writing on
agrarian politics in Kenya.
Thomas M. Callaghy is Assistant Professor of Political Science and
Associate Director of the Research Institute on International Change
at Columbia University. He is the author of The State Society
Struggle: Zaire in Comparative Perspective (1984) and editor of South
Africa in Southern Africa: The Intensifying Vortex of Violence (1983).
Robert L. Curry, Jr is a Professor of Economics at California State
University, Sacramento. He has lectured at Cuttington College,
Liberia and the University of Zambia. He was a consultant to
USAID in Sudan and Canadian Aid in Botswana and Lesotho. With
Donald Rothchild, he co-authored Scarcity, Choice and Public Policy
in Middle Africa (1978). He has contributed articles on Africa to
several journals including the Journal of Modern African Studies.
Harvey Glickman is Professor of Political Science at Haverford
College. He is the author of a number of articles, reviews and parts of
books on political change in Africa, including the chapter on 'Politi
cal Science' in The African World, Handbook of the African Studies
Association. His most recent work is 'Anti-Americanism in Africa:
the Constraints of Globalism', in A. Z. Rubinstein and D. E. Smith
(ed.), Anti-Americanism in the Third World (1985).
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