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The transformation of property rights in the Gold Coast : an empirical analysis applying rational choice theory / Kathryn Firmin-Sellers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Firmin-Sellers, Kathryn, author.
- Series:
- Political economy of institutions and decisions.
- Political economy of institutions and decisions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land tenure--Ghana--History.
- Land tenure.
- Real property--Ghana--History.
- Real property.
- Customary law--Ghana--History.
- Customary law.
- Agriculture and state--Ghana--Case studies.
- Agriculture and state.
- Land tenure--Africa.
- Real property--Africa.
- Agriculture and state--Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 200 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the political process by which property rights are defined and enforced in two traditional states in colonial Ghana. The case studies within the book ask how colonial institutions transformed indigenous political and economic life; and how colonization and decolonization affected prospects for future economic development and stability in Africa. The introductory chapter outlines a theory of the transformation of property rights systems. The remaining empirical chapters refine this theory through a detailed analysis of the transformation of property rights within an African context. These chapters draw explicitly on rational choice theories to analyse indigenous actors' attempts to redefine and enforce property rights to land by 'reinventing' the traditions of their respective communities. These theories help to understand why property rights systems across Africa remain fluid and insecure.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- pt. 1. The institutions of the colonial state: The logic of indirect rule
- pt. 2. The reinvention of tradition : the evolution of property rights under indirect rule: Institutional failure in the Ga state ; Institutional creation in Akyem Abuakwa : the politics of property rights
- pt. 3. The transition to independent government: Redfining the institutions of central government : the writing ot the Coussey Constitution ; The return to the traditional state ; Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-191) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-511-58485-7
- 0-511-00024-3
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