Bibliogr. p. 273-295. Index.

The impulse to reform in Africa / Robert H. Bates -- Through the structural adjustment minefield : politics in an era of economic liberalization / Barbara Grosh -- Political reform in Anglophone and Francophone African countries / Jennifer A. Widner -- Structural adjustment, rent seeking, and liberalization in Benin / Richard Westebbe -- Economic crisis and political realignment in Zambia / Michael Bratton -- Neopatrimonialism and democracy in Africa, with an illustration from Cameroon / Nicolas van de Walle -- The rise and fall of the one-party state in Tanzania / Mwesiga Baregu -- The dilemmas of explaining political upheaval : Ghana in comparative perspective / Jeffrey Herbst -- Structuring state-society relations in Africa : toward an enabling political environment / Donald Rothchild -- Democratization in Africa : the contradictions of a political imperative / Crawford Young -- Creating a research agenda for the study of political change in Africa / Ernest J. Wilson III.