Property and political order in Africa : land rights and the structure of politics /
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| Author / Creator: | Boone, Catherine, author. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
| Description: | xvi, 416 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in comparative politics Cambridge studies in comparative politics. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9919495 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Property regimes and land conflict : seeing institutions and their effects
- Land tenure regimes and political order in rural Africa
- Rising competition for land : redistribution and its varied political effects
- Ethnic strangers as second-class citizens
- Ethnic strangers as protected clients of the state
- Land conflict at the micro-scale : family
- The local state as an arena of redistributive conflict : chieftaincy
- Land conflict at the national scale : Rwanda
- Winning and losing politically allocated land rights : property conflict in the electoral arena
- Zimbabwe in comparative perspective
- Conclusion : property institutions in political explanation.
