Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; Z. Ergas - PART 1 THE THEORY - Reflections on State Centrism as Ideology in Africa; H. Glickman - Class Political Domination and the African State; N. Kasfir - The Managerial State in Africa: A Conflict Coalition Perspective; O. Marenin - The State as Lame Leviathan: The Patrimonial Adminstrative State in Africa; T. Callaghy - Hegemony and State Softness in Africa: Some Variations in Elite Responses; D. Rothchild - The Dynamics of Factionalism in Contemporary Africa; R. Lemarchand - PART 2 THE PRACTICE - The Crisis of the Socialist State in Africa; M. Ottaway - The Military and the State in Africa: Problems of Political Transition; C. Welch - The Foreign Exchange Imperative Policy Reform and the African State; C. Lancaster - The Politics of Agricultural Pricing in Sub-Saharan Africa; R. Bates - Basic Human Needs and the African State; R. Curry Jr - Directions for Further Research: Diarchy Conditionality Aid and Development in Africa - Index. Language: English