TY - BOOK AU - Posner,Daniel N. TI - Institutions and ethnic politics in Africa T2 - Political economy of institutions and decisions SN - 9780521833981 AV - JQ2831 .P67 U1 - 324/.089/0096894 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Politics, Practical KW - Zambia KW - Institutions politiques KW - Zambie KW - Ethnic relations KW - Politics and government KW - Political aspects KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Relations interethniques KW - Aspect politique N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-327) and index; Accounting for the ethnic cleavage structure -- Accounting for ethnic coalition-building choices -- Testing the argument -- Beyond Zambia N2 - Posner presents a theory to account for why and when politics revolves around one axis of social cleavage instead of another. It does so by examining the case of Zambia, where people identify themselves as either members of one of the country's 73 tribesor as members of one of its four principal language groups UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam041/2004045197.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam041/2004045197.html UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0732/2004045197-b.html ER -