Author:
Chazan Naomi,Mortimer Robert,Ravenhill John,Rothchild Donald
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1. An excellent overview may be found in Richard Sandbrook, The Politics of Africa’s Economic Stagnation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), esp. pp. 1–62.
2. Robert H. Jackson and Carl G. Rosberg, “Why Africa’s Weak States Persist: The Empirical and the Judicial in Statehood,” World Politics 35, no. 1 (1982): 1–25, offer external explanations for this durability. More recently, other interpretations have been suggested.
3. See Donald Rothchild and Naomi Chazan, eds., The Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1988).
4. Roger Charlton, “Dehomogenising the Study of African Politics—The Case of Inter-State Influence on Regime Formation and Change,” Plural Societies 14, no. 1/2 (1983): 32–48.
5. Richard Hodder-Williams, An Introduction to the Politics of Tropical Africa (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984), is insistent on this point.