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Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa

Robert H Bates author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:1st Jul '92

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The essays in this volume represent a dialogue between theory and data. The theory is drawn from a branch of contemporary political economy which can also be labeled the collective-choice school. The data are drawn from Africa. The book extends the methods of reasoning developed in collective choice from their original base - the advanced industrial democracies - to new territory; the literature on rural Africa. Such an extension challenges the power of this form of political economy. It also enriches it, for the central questions which motivate the contemporary study of political economy are often addressed with unique clarity in the scholarship on rural Africa.

ISBN: 9780520060142

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm

Weight: 318g

178 pages