POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Statism, Westminster System, Socalled
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Pol301 lecture notes july 4, 2013: african scholars, article by crawford young, scholars analyse using the statist approach. Statism comes from a realist approach of ir: claude ake. Africa ignored its own culture, history (foreign nature of african states: borrowed the weberian state without looking at how it can work in. Gain power and use to bar all other claims to power and even to rights: one nation, one leader, one party. Solutions for state crisis: redistribution of political power from regime to civil society, reorientation of public policy away from special interests and towards common interests. Crisis facing african states cannot be solved simply or solely by resort to. State has to be reconstituted from below, rather than from authoritarian top-down approach. Citizenship and citizenship rights must be revised in a scenario where borders disintegrate as people choose where to live based on ethnicity.
