State-society exchange in modern Sahelian Africa: Cultural representation, political mobilization, and state rule (Senegal, Mauritania, Chad, Sudan).

Modern African states need to be analyzed from a perspective which complements, corrects, or specifies dependency/world-system and structural marxist explanations of peripheral political dynamics. This dissertation offers such a perspective as it seeks to explain variations in state-society exchange among four comparably dependent modern nations of the Sahelian African region (Senegal, Mauritania, Chad, Sudan). The model accounts for the political ramifications--state's mode of rule, level and type of opposition mobilization--of each country's ethno-religious configuration. It assumes that trans-national economic (and/or geopolitical) dynamics do not necessarily weigh more heavily on the dynamics of state-society relations than local political processes.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor dc:publisher

The University of Arizona.

Year dc:date.issued

1993

Author dc:creator

• Daddah, Amel.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Schwartzman, Kathleen
• Park, Thomas K.
• Grant, Don

• Sahel -- Politics and government.
• Sahel -- Social conditions.

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.

Language dc:language.iso

en

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186159

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.arizona.edu:10150/186159