Negotiating statehood: Dynamics of power and domination in Africa

Development and Change

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 539-562

  Hagmann, Tobias ^a   Péclard, Didier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUREAUCRACY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HEURISTICS; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; POWER RELATIONS; STATE BUILDING;

AFRICA;

EID: 77955736961     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: 14677660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2010.01656.x     Document Type: Article

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