Boone, Catherine 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5324-7814
(2014)
Property and political order in Africa: land rights and the structure of politics.
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics.
Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.
ISBN 9781107040694
Abstract
In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state authority is deeply embedded in land regimes, drawing farmers, ethnic insiders and outsiders, lineages, villages and communities into direct and indirect relationships with political authorities at different levels of the state apparatus. The analysis shows how property institutions - institutions that define political authority and hierarchy around land - shape dynamics of great interest to scholars of politics, including the dynamics of land-related competition and conflict, territorial conflict, patron-client relations, electoral cleavage and mobilization, ethnic politics, rural rebellion, and the localization and 'nationalization' of political competition.
| Item Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Official URL: | http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/poli... |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 Cambridge University Press |
| Divisions: | International Development Government |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Sep 2017 08:30 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2024 05:02 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/84314 |
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