Catherine Boone (University of Texas, Austin)

Submitted:  Mon, 27 October 2003


Catherine Boone
Associate Professor of Government
University of Texas at Austin
BUR 536
Austin, Texas  78712-1087  USA

phone:   512 471 5121
fax:     512 471 1061
e-mail:  cboone@mail.la.utexas.edu
 

Publications

Books

Political Topographies of the African State: Rural Authority and
Institutional Choice (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press,
2003).

Merchant power and the roots of state power in Senegal, 1930-1985 (New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1992).

Articles

"State, Capital, and the Politics of Banking Reform in Sub-Saharan
Africa," forthcoming in Comparative Politics, 2004

"Decentralization as Political Strategy in West Africa," Comparative
Political Studies, vol. 36, n. 4, May 2003.

"Politics and AIDS in Africa: Research Agendas  in Political Science and
International Relations," with Jake Batsell, Africa Today, vol. 48, n. 2,
2001: 3-35.

"From Statism to Liberalism in Senegal: Shifting Politics of Indigenous
Business Interests," with Ibrahima Thioub and Momar Coumba Diop, African
Studies Review, vol. 41, n. 2 (July), 1998.
      
"State Building in the African Countryside: Structure and Process at the
Grassroots," Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 34, n. 4 (April) 1998.
(corrigenda in Vol. 35, n. 1, October 1998).

"The social origins of Ivoirian exceptionalism: rural society and state
formation," in Comparative Politics (27; July 1995): 445-63.  (Côte
d'Ivoire)