TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baldwin,Kate
TI  - The paradox of traditional chiefs in democratic Africa
T2  - Cambridge studies in comparative politics
SN  - 9781107127333 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - JS7525 .B35 2016
U1  - 320.8096 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Central-local government relations
KW  - Africa
KW  - Zambia
KW  - Chiefdoms
KW  - Local government
KW  - Democratization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Section 1; Toward a new theory of chiefs; The paradox of chiefs --; Conceptualizing chiefs --; Traditional leaders and democracy --; Section 2; Chiefs, development and elections in Zambia; Introduction to Zambia --; Chiefs and local public goods provision --; Electoral king makers --; Chiefs and the voter's calculus. --; Section 3; Traditional leaders in Africa and beyond; Chiefs and government responsiveness across Africa --; Development brokers revisited; Appendix A; Construction of cross-national measures of chief's power --; Appendix B; List of interviews and interview protocols --; Appendix C; Data set on local public goods provision and absent chiefs --; Appendix D; Survey of chiefs and chiefdom level data set --; Appendix E; Household survey and experiment; Chiefs as development brokers
ER  -