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How do political systems in Africa work? Is the "real" business ofpolitics taking place outside the scope of standard political analysis, in an"informal" or more personalised setting? How are the prospects for reform andrenewal in African societies affected by the emerging elites? Is "modernisation" inAfrica different? Are there within African countries social, political and culturalfactors which aspire to the continuation of patrimony and con...

A systematic re-evaluation of the role of culture in political analysis. The authors' contentions are that it is unwise to compare different societies without taking into account culture(s), that a cultural approach contributes meaning to political comparison, and that conceptual frameworks can be based on a theoretically eclectic approach.

Understanding politics in nations other than your own is a perilous exercise. If you were to read two newspaper articles on the same topic but from different countries, you would likely find two very different interpretations of the same event. But how we think about what is written in our own country seems somehow less distorted, less wrong. So which side is right? And from what reference point can we begin to compare the two? "Culture Troubl...