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Claude Ake

Political Science

#1335

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#1608

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Political Science

Claude Ake's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of Ibadan

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According to Wikipedia, Claude Ake was a Nigerian political scientist from Omoku, in Rivers State, Nigeria. Ake was considered "one of Africa's foremost political philosophers." He specialized in political economy, political theory, and development studies and is well known for his research on development and democracy in Africa. He was professor of political economy and dean of the University of Port Harcourt's Faculty of Social Sciences for some years in the 1970s and 1980s after having taught at Columbia University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1966. He held various academic positions at institutions around the world, including at Yale University , University of Nairobi , University of Dar es Salaam and University of Port Harcourt . He was active in Nigerian politics, a critic of corruption and authoritarian rule in Africa. His permanent home was in Port Harcourt.

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Claude Ake's Published Works

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A political economy of Africa (1981) (693)
Democracy And Development In Africa (1996) (681)
The Feasibility of Democracy in Africa (1992) (423)
The unique case of African democracy (1993) (193)
Social Science as Imperialism. the Theory of Political Development (1982) (193)
A Definition of Political Stability (1975) (118)
Revolutionary pressures in Africa (1978) (103)
A Theory of Political Integration. (1970) (96)
Political economy of Nigeria (1985) (95)
Democratization of disempowerment in Africa (1994) (84)
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM OF ETHNICITY IN AFRICA?1 (1993) (58)
Explanatory Notes on the Political Economy of Africa (1976) (57)
Is Africa democratizing (1996) (49)
The Future of the State in Africa (1985) (46)
Charismatic Legitimation and Political Integration (1966) (46)
Modernization and Political Instability: A Theoretical Exploration (1974) (42)
Explaining Political Instability in New States (1973) (35)
Building on the indigenous (1991) (23)
Asymmetrical Reciprocity: A Contribution to the Theory of Political Legitimacy [and Comments and Reply] (1980) (21)
Political Integration and Political Stability: A Hypothesis (1967) (21)
Dangerous liaisons: the interface of globalization and democracy (1997) (20)
Nigerian Government and Politics: Prelude to the Revolution. (1968) (19)
The marginalization of Africa : notes on a productive confusion (1996) (14)
Why Humanitarian Emergencies Occur. Insights from the Interface of State, Democracy and Civil Society (1997) (13)
Pan-Africanism and African Governments (1965) (10)
Toward a theory of political integration (1967) (9)
Globalization, Multilateralism and the Shrinking Democratic Space (1999) (6)
The Political Economy Approach: Historical and Explanatory Notes on a Marxian Legacy in Africa (1983) (6)
The Survival of Communities: A Theoretical Perspective [and Comments and Reply] (1979) (6)
Democray and development (1990) (4)
Notes for a Political Economy of Unemployment in Africa (4)
The Scientific Status of Political Science (1972) (4)
Political Obligation and Political Dissent (1969) (4)
Social Contract Theory and the Problem of Politicization (1970) (4)
How misconceptions devalue democracy (1996) (2)
Right, Utility, and Rousseau (1967) (1)
The marginalization of Africa (1996) (1)
Tanzania: the progress of a decade (1972) (1)
The Foreign Relations of Nation Building States (1967) (0)
Representative institutions, participatory processes and public policies : Nigeria and Senegal (1989) (0)
‘The Scientific Status of Political Science’—Rejoinder (1973) (0)
Occasional Electronic Paper 1 NIGERIA : DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL (2005) (0)
Colin Leys, Underdevelopment in Kenya: The Political Economy of Neo-Colonialism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1974, pp. xvi, 284 (1976) (0)

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