Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 14 No. 38 Political Power & Social Class in Neo-Colonial African State

Abstract of Article

Title:	Political Power and Social Class in the Neo-Colonial African State
Author:	Craig Charney
Location:	Vol.14 No.38 (Spring 1987), pp48-65

Using Poulantzas' mode of analysis to provide a framework of understanding and periodising the state, and the often referred to but seldom defined phenomenon of 'neo-colonialism' . Shows that the neo-colonial state has a different basis for 'hegemony' - clientelism - than in the centre states, and that it is particularist not 'national' . Also explores the circumstances under which there could be a break-up of the dominant class basis of and of factional popular support for the neo-colonial state.

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