Giovanni Carbone, Alessandro Pellegata

Political Leadership in Africa

Leaders and Development South of the Sahara

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 390
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 165mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781108423731
• ISBN-10: 1108423736
• Artikelnr.: 59413316

Autorenporträt

Giovanni Carbone is Professor of Political Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano and Head of the Africa Programme at ISPI (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale). His research focuses on the comparative study of politics, geopolitics and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. He has been the Principal Investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) funded research project and is the author of articles in journals including Governance, Journal of Development Studies and Journal of Modern African Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Leadership, politics and development
2. Coming to power and using it: leaders' selection, change and government performance
3. The Africa Leadership Change (ALC) dataset
4. The changing dynamics of African leadership: rulers before and after 1990
5. When the military strikes
6. Lessening Africa's 'big men': term limits
7. Leading for development? (I): economic growth
8. Leading for development? (II): social welfare, state consolidation and corruption control
9. Autocrats, hegemons, democrats and transients
10. Leaders to come.