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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- EDITORS' NOTE -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- Aims of this Book -- A Representative Sample of African Societies -- Political Philosophy and Comparative Politics -- The Two Types of Political System Studied -- Kinship in Political Organization -- The Influence of Demography -- The Influence of Mode of Livelihood -- Composite Political Systems and the Conquest Theory -- The Territorial Aspect -- The Balance of Forces in the Political System -- The Incidence and Function of Organized Force -- Differencesin Response to European Rule -- The Mystical Values Associated with Political Office -- The Problem of the Limits of the Political Group -- THE KINGDOM OF THE ZULU OF SOUTH AFRICA -- Historical Introduction -- The Zulu King and the State -- Status and Political Power -- The Tribes within the Nation -- Sanctions on Authority and the Stability of the State -- The People and their Leaders -- The Period of European Rule -- Conclusion -- THE POLITICAL ORGANIZATION OF THE NGWATO OF BECHUANALAND PROTECTORATE -- Ethnic Composition and Territorial Constitution -- The Administrative System -- Powers and Authority of the Chief -- Rights and Responsibilities of Chieftainship -- THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF THE BEMBA TRIBE-NORTH-EASTERN RHODESIA -- Bantu Political Organization-Some General Features -- The Bemba Tribe -- Tribal Composition -- Social Grouping -- Kinship -- Local Grouping -- Rank -- Other Principles of Social Grouping -- Economic Background -- White Administration -- Bases of Authority -- The Dogma of Descent -- Legal Rules of Descent and Succession -- Functions and Prerogatives of Authority -- The Headman -- the Chief -- The Machinery of Government -- Administrative -- Military -- Judicial -- Advisory.

This special topic forum is intended to encourage scholarship on private firms' influence on politics and political systems from a variety of management disciplinary and intellectual perspectives. The papers in this STF develop counterintuitive theory about the circumstances of those private firms developing different corporate strategies to influence government policy. They suggest that management scholars are only beginning to address this important topic and propose several additional promising research directions. Copyright of the Academy of Management, all rights reserved.

"Collection of articles on the Basque political system within its own context and larger national and global contexts"--Provided by publisher

I INTEND TO FOLLOW AN ABSTRACT LINE IN ANSWERING THE question why political systems change. That is, I am not concerned with the infinity of descriptive reasons why change occurs in any concrete case. It may be argued that now is not the time to bother with such a trivial approach, particularly when the language of crisis is what must be used, and also understood, and not the language of abstraction.I think the answer to this is that for too long the evaluation of politics, and of government in particular, has become a 'pseudoactivity' in which descriptive categories like 'parliamentary control over the executive', or 'reform of the committee system' are comforting shibboleths which, although meant to contain some inner profundity have lost much of their original meaning. The truth is that the balance between normative givens and structural conditions is becoming so altered that the common-sense foundations of the discipline seem almost irrelevant.