1971 Hardcover. No dust jacket. Minimal wear, no markings or highlights, otherwise nice clean copy.

Unions, Parties and Political Development: A Study of Mineworkers in Zambia

Politics & Social Sciences

Bates, Robert H.

Politics & Government

Yale University Press

Rural Responses to Industrialization: A Study of Village Zambia

Social Sciences

Yale Univ Pr

The author explores the evolution from clan-level societies to the modern state, focusing on Sudanese guerillas, Zambian miners, and Columbian diplomats, among other contemporary case studies.

Prosperity and Violence: The Political Economy of Development

Business & Money

Economics

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

In his new edition of Prosperity and Violence, Robert Bates continues to investigate the relationship between political order and economic growth. As power and politics play a role in every society, rich or poor, Bates argues it is the reorganization of coercion--not its extinction--that underpins the security needed for investment. Although history makes clear that political structures can be used for destructive ends, it also demonstrates their importance in ensuring the peace needed for prosperity. In this revised edition, Bates strengthens his critique of development studies and development agencies, basing it on his analysis of the nature of states that emerged following WWII.

Prosperity & Violence: The Political Economy of Development (Norton Series in World Politics (Paperback))

W.W.Norton&Company

Prosperity &amp; Violence considers the history of human civilization and explains the origins of the modern state, focusing on the evolution of capitalism as cultures move from dispersed agrarian clans to the dense modern metropolis. Informed by firsthand experience with the political and economic development of many diverse cultures, Bates demonstrates how successful modern states harness ethnic diversity for prosperity rather than for violence and political power. Brief and compelling, Prosperity &amp; Violence is certain to be an excellent supplement in any comparative politics course.

Prosperity & Violence: The Political Economy of Development (The Norton Series in World Politics)

Essays on the Political Economy of Rural Africa (African Studies)

Cambridge University Press

In the later decades of the 20th century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms. In When Things Fell Apart, Robert H. Bates advances an explanation of state failure in Africa. In so doing, he not only plumbs the depths of the continent's late-century tragedy, but also the logic of political order and the foundations of the state. This book covers a wide range of territory by drawing on materials from Rwanda, Sudan, Liberia, and Congo. Written to be accessible to the general reader, it is nonetheless a must-read for scholars and policy makers concerned with political conflict and state failure.

When Things Fell Apart: State Failure in Late-Century Africa (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies (California Series on Social Choice and Political Economy)

Most Africans live in rural areas and derive their incomes from farming; but because African governments follow policies that are adverse to most farmers' interests, these countries fail to produce enough food to feed their populations. Markets and States in Tropical Africa analyzes these and other paradoxical features of development in modern Africa and explores how governments have intervened and diverted resources from farmers to other sectors of society. A classic of the field since its publication in 1981, this edition includes a new preface by the author.

Markets and states in tropical Africa: The political basis of agricultural policies (California series on social choice and political economy)

University of California Press

Markets and States in Tropical Africa: The Political Basis of Agricultural Policies: With a New Preface (California Series on Social Choice & Political Economy)

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