AAMS 338 Comprehensive Exam With Solved Solutions.
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Stateless Society - Answer A society whose political organization does not rely on strictly defined territory or centralized political institutions.
Indirect Rule - Answer A system of colonial administration favoring the use of local intermediaries, rather than full-scale central government ...
AAMS 338 Comprehensive Exam With Solved Solutions.
Stateless Society - Answer A society whose political organization does not rely on strictly defined territory or centralized political institutions.
Indirect Rule - Answer A system of colonial administration favoring the use of local intermediaries, rather than full-scale central government intervention.
irrendentism - Answer The desire to unite under one flag a community that is currently divided between separate states.
African Nationalism - Answer - Demand for self-determination
- State created first and then nation started to get rid of colonial administrators
- Anti-Tribalism
- Challenged imperial rule in the 1950s
- Emerged as a reaction to colonialism
- Immediate aim was to rid the continent of foreign rule
- Didn't want to establish a new state
- Wanted to capture the existing colonial states and govern it themselves
Ethnic Group - Answer A community of people who have the conviction that they have a common identity and common fate based on issues of origin, kinship ties, traditions, cultural uniqueness, a shared
history and possibly a shared language.
Primordialism - Answer Sees African 'tribes' as something left over from the pre-colonial past
Instrumentalism - Answer (Constructed or chosen to gain benefits from the membership)
African tribes are modern Constructivism - Answer Socially constructed identity(Constructed or chosen to gain benefits from the membership)
African tribes are modern
Clientelism - Answer Thomson: A largely instrumental political relationship that exists when an individual of higher socio-economic status (the patron) uses their influence and resources to provide protection or benefits, or both, for a person of lower status (the client), who, for their part, reciprocates by offering general support and assistance to the patron
Ethnic Politics - Answer the struggles for rights, representation, or survival that result when multiple ethnicities live in the same geographic region
Legitimacy - Answer A psychological relationship between the governed and their governors which engenders a belief that the state's leaders and institutions have a right to exercise political authority over
the rest of society.
Personal Rule - Answer A system of government where one individual, commanding the heights of state
institutions and patron- client networks, dominates political activity within a territory
Patrimonialism - Answer Political authority based on an individual, where the state itself, and the affairs
of state, are the personal interests of the ruler. All within this political system owe their position and loyalty to the one leader.
Neo-patrimonialism - Answer A system of government where patrimonial rule (see below) is exercised through the remnants of legal-rational institutions.
One-party State - Answer A system of government where formal political mobilization is channeled through a single state-sponsored party. Opposition parties are outlawed.
Pure sources of legitimacy - Answer Traditional: Legitimacy rests on a society's culture and history Charismatic: Legitimacy rests on the leader's personality or the ideals the leader imparts
Legal-rational authority: Governments based on a social contract
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