The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa

The Paradox of Traditional Chiefs in Democratic Africa

By
Kate Baldwin
Kate Baldwin
2015 • 261 pages

This book shows that powerful hereditary chiefs do not undermine democracy in Africa but, on some level, facilitate it.

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Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics is a 20-book series first released in 1984 with contributions by Steven I. Wilkinson, David D. Laitin, and Sidney Tarrow.

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