Séminaire STAFF avec Catherine Boone

12.12.2022 12:15 – 14:00

Existing literatures have found economic cleavages, institutions, and issue politics to be of low significance and salience in national politics in African countries. This work inverts these arguments, suggesting that the existing scholarship may not be looking in the right places to find economic cleavages, politically-impactful institutions, or salient issues. If we train the analytic focus on spatial inequalities and territorial institutions, then forms of regionalism and territorial-politics observed in spatially-divided countries around the work are also clearly apparent in Africa, often in the predictable issue areas of redistribution, sectoral policy, market integration (land), and state design. Political effects that earlier scholars have attributed to high ethnic heterogeneity or other features intrinsic to African societies may, when viewed in broader comparative perspective, be traceable to more generic structural-economic and institutional causes.

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Bâtiment: Uni Mail

M6220

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