ASR Forum: the life and work of Joel Barkan

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Title:	ASR Forum: the life and work of Joel Barkan
Editor:	Cheeseman, Nic
Year:	2016
Periodical:	African Studies Review (ISSN 1555-2462)
Volume:	59
Issue:	3
Pages:	107-215
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Subsaharan Africa Kenya Uganda
Subjects:	academics political science democracy
About person:	Joel David Barkan
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2016.89
Abstract:	Joel Barkan was an important figure in Africanist political science and one of the world's leading experts on East Africa. This ASR Forum explores the legacy of his work on a number of countries, including Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda, and a broad range of political institutions and phenomena. Contributions: Joel Barkan and Kenya (David W. Throup); Putting the Third Wave into practice: democracy promotion in Kenya (John W. Harbeson); Applying a counterfactual: would 1966 Ugandan university students be surprised by Ugandan governance today? (Nelson Kasfir); Devolution and the new politics of development in Kenya (Karuti Kanyinga); Beyond the liberal democracy paradigm: a fresh look at power and institutions (Goran Hyden); Patrons, parties, political linkage, and the birth of competitive-authoritarianism in Africa (Nic Cheeseman); Legislatures and democratic development in Africa (Robert Mattes, Shaheen Mozaffar). Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in English and French. [ASC Leiden abstract]