ANATOMY OF GHANAIAN POLITICS : managing political recession 1969-1982.: managing political recession 1969-1982. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: CHAZAN, NAOMI
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; LIST OF TABLES; PREFACE; 1. THE TEXTURE OF GHANAIAN POLITICS: AN OVERVIEW; 1969-1982: Patterns of Poverty and Political Uncertainty; The Ghanaian Political Domain: Concepts, Processes, and Contents; Factors in the Analysis of Ghanaian Politics; The Variability of Power, Authority, Legitimacy, and the State: Some Preliminary Remarks; PART ONE. THE COMPONENTS OF POLITICS: AN ANATOMY OF POLITICAL STRUCTURES; 2. THE SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL ACTION; The Group Basis of Politics; Horizontal and Vertical Social Formations Class and Ethnicity as Social Linkage StructuresThe Enclosure of the Social System; 3. STATE STRUCTURES AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS; The State of the State; State Structures and Patterns of Institutionalization; Alternative Political Institutions; The Limits of the State Nexus; The State and Social Relations; 4. THE STRUCTURE OF AUTHORITY: LEADERS, PATRONS, AND RULING COALITIONS; Leadership Patterns; State Leaders; Local Authority Figures; Patrons: Brokers and Intermediaries; The Interaction of Leadership Groups; The Structure and Composition of Ruling Coalitions: A Typology PART TWO. THE MEANINGS AND USES OF POLITICS: ANANATOMY OF POLITICAL PROCESSES5. SYMBOLIC PROCESSES: POLITICAL IDEAS, IDEOLOGIES, AND IDEA-LOGICS; The Scope of the Political Realm; Official Political Ideas; Protest Ideologies and Populist Idea-Logics; Divergencies and Commonalities of Political World Views; 6. THE CHANGING POLITICAL ECONOMY: POLICIES, PERFORMANCE, AND RESPONSES; The Pattern of Economic Decay; The Process of Deterioration: Praxis and Results; Explanations for Ghana's Underdevelopment; Ghanaian Responses and Adjustments to Economic Deterioration Practical and Theoretical ImplicationsPART THREE. THE DYNAMICS OF POLITICS: AN ANATOMY OF POLITICAL INTERACTIONS; 7. THE SECOND REPUBLIC: THE FRAGILITY OF ETHNICELITISM; Political Conflict: Participation, Politicization, and Dissent; The Structure of Conflict Under Busia; The Rise of Opposition and Dissent; The 1972 Coup d'Etat; 8. THE ACHEAMPONG YEARS: THE DISINTEGRATION OF COERCION; The Spiral of Protest and Repression; 1972-1975: Incorporation and Subversion; 1975-1977: The Consolidation of Coercion and the Organization of Dissent; 1977-1978: Union Government and Dissolution The Demise of Acheampong and the Breakdown of State Control9. 1978-1979: TURMOIL, EXPERIMENTATION, AND RESTRUCTURING; The Pendulum of Change; The Akuffo Interregnum; Populist Reformism: Jerry Rawlings and the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council; Return to Civilian Rule: The 1979 Version; Ghana on the Eve of the Inauguration of the Third Republic; 10. THE LIMANN CIVILIAN EPISODE: THE FAILURE OF COMPETITIVE POLITICS; The Challenge of Civilian Rule; Attempts at Civilian Incorporation; The Political Economy of Poverty; Conflict and Disarray; The Return of Ananse: Rawlings' Second Coming
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : ROUTLEDGE
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (1 volume)
• Subjects: 320.9667; Politics and government; Ghana -- Politics and government -- 1957-1979; Ghana -- Politics and government -- 1979-2001; Ghana; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429049354; 0429049358; 9780429705113; 0429705115; 9780429745133; 0429745133; 9780429725128; 0429725124
• Related ISBNs: 0367019493; 9780367019495
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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