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Government and Rural Development in East Africa

Essays on Political Penetration

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  • © 1977

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Editors:
  1. L. Cliffe
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  2. J. S. Coleman
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  3. M. R. Doornbos
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Part of the book series: Institute of Social Studies Series on Development of Societies (ISDS, volume 2)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Introduction ‘Penetration’ and the East African Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Concept of Political Penetration

      • James S. Coleman
      Pages 3-18

    3. ‘Penetration’ and Rural Development in the East African Context

      • Lionel Cliffe
      Pages 19-50

  3. The Colonial Legacy and the Dynamics of Political Control

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
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    2. Teso in Transformation

      • Joan Vincent
      Pages 53-80

    3. Local Participation in National Politics, Ugogo, Tanzania

      • Peter Rigby
      Pages 81-98

    4. The Legitimacy of the Uganda Government in Buganda

      • A. B. Mafeje
      Pages 99-116

  4. Institutions and Strategies for Rural Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Creating and Expanding Organizations for Rural Development

      • Robert J. H. Chambers
      Pages 119-138

    3. Economics, Incentives and Development Penetration

      • G. K. Helleiner
      Pages 139-149

    4. Leadership and Institutions for Rural Development: A Case Study of Nzega District

      • Belle Harris
      Pages 151-168

  5. District Politics and Rural Transformation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169
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    2. Promoting Agrarian Change: Penetration and Response in Murang’a, Kenya

      • G. B. Lamb
      Pages 171-182

    3. Political Engineering and Social Change: A Case Study of Bukoba District, Tanzania

      • Goran Hyden
      Pages 183-200

    4. Improving Nutrition in Bukedi District, Uganda

      • Ann Sharman
      Pages 201-219

  6. The Dynamics of Rural Societies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221
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    2. Staff, Kulaks and Peasants: a Study of a Political Field

      • H. U. E. Thoden van Velzen
      Pages 223-250

    3. The Social Structure of the Agricultural Extension Services in the Western Province of Kenya

      • David K. Leonard
      Pages 251-271

    4. Legitimacy and Coercion in Bena Politics and Development

      • Marc J. Swartz
      Pages 273-291
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About this book

The gestation period of this collection has been lengthy even by academic stan­ dards. Some of our long-suffering contributors prepared their original drafts for a workshop held in Nairobi in 1967, and although they have all up-dated their contributions they are still essentially reporting on research conducted in the late 1960s. However, we feel that their various findings and analyses of the issues they respectively treat have a continuing validity in our comprehension of the problem of rural development. Other contributions reporting on more recent work have been incorporated at different times since, most of them not commissioned especially for this symposium but all adding something to our understanding of the problem. The slow accumulation of material which makes up this fmal collection parallels an evolution in our own collective thinking, if indeed not that of most students of 'development' over the past decade. The progression has not been towards fmal clarification of the complex and changing East African realities, nor towards formulation of an accepted model for their analysis; rather, it has been marked by the questioning of the initial, somewhat simplistic assumptions with which some of us started out and a continuing debate and widening polar­ ization of views about the significance of that process of government 'pene­ tration' of the rural areas which is our focus, about the positive or negative value of 'development' policies in East Africa and, indeed, about the appropri­ ate theoretical approaches to the study of 'development' in general.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Government and Rural Development in East Africa

  • Book Subtitle: Essays on Political Penetration

  • Editors: L. Cliffe, J. S. Coleman, M. R. Doornbos

  • Series Title: Institute of Social Studies Series on Development of Societies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1030-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1884-9Published: 30 June 1977

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1030-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 344

  • Topics: Political Science

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