Göran Hydén's research while affiliated with University of Florida and other places

This study of mainland Tanzania shows that power is cen-tralised and significantly influenced by development part-ners. Power is also dispersed among patronage-oriented individuals who fail to coordinate or act in a strategic manner in order to realise the common objectives stated in strategic development documents and declarations. The study proposes how analysis and monitoring of power could be conducted in more systematic ways. It offers a set of proposals for local actors and development partners that would help bring a more equal character to their re-lationships. There are ways in which civil society and state institutions could enter into a competitive and constructive relationship under the auspices of national ownership of the development process. The conclusion discusses how power analyses can be used by development partners and partner institutions alike.

This article discusses how power may be fruitfully brought into policy analysis in order to make efforts to support development and poverty alleviation in developing countries. It begins by asking why power has been left out of development policy analysis for such a long time and proceeds by discussing what a power analysis entails. The third section provides a framework for how power can be brought into policy analysis as an independent and dependent variable. It concludes by demonstrating the usefulness of this approach and discussing the implications it has for the kind of data needed for development analysis and the kind of approach to adopt. This approach is shown to transcend the limitations of conventional diplomatic reporting on politics and regular macro-economic analysis, which is based largely on questionable national statistical information.

This book reviews fifty years of research on politics in Africa. It synthesizes insights from different scholarly approaches and offers an original interpretation of the knowledge accumulated over the years. It discusses how research on African politics relates the study of politics in other regions and mainstream theories in Comparative Politics. It focuses on such key issues as the legacy of a movement approach to political change, the nature of the state, the economy of a location, the policy deficit, the agrarian question, gender and politics and ethnicity and conflict.

Incl. bibl., index.

Paper prepared for the panel titled "Finally Untamed? Africa's New Engagements with the North and South" at the 4 th European Conference on African Studies held in Uppsala June 15-18, 2011.