Bøker av Richard Sandbrook

Exploring democratization in Africa, this book compares a variety of African nations and illustrates the connections between democracy, economic reform and social order.

A study of the role of unionised workers in Kenya, this places the workers and their unions within the broad context of an evolving political economy. Similar studies, often restricted to a single trade union, have usually focused either on union-government relations or on internal union politics.

Neopatrimonialism in post-colonial Africa is essentially an adaptation of colonial-inspired political institutions to peculiar historical and social conditions. This book focuses on the political factor as an important cause of Africa's economic ills.