Informal Institutions and Citizenship in Rural Africa: Risk and Reciprocity in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Series)
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This book challenges previous assumptions about institutions, social capital, and the nature of the African state by investigating the history of political and economic change in villages on either side of the Ghana-Cote d'Ivoire border. Prior to European colonial rule, these Akan villages had very similar political and cultural institutions. By the late 1990s, however, Lauren M. MacLean found puzzling differences in the informal institutions of reciprocity...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1107617952
ISBN13:9781107617957
Release Date:January 2014
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:314 Pages
Weight:1.07 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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