Claude Ake

1939-1996·9,540 citations

Claude Ake was a prominent Nigerian political scientist and philosopher who served as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Port Harcourt and founded the Centre for Advanced Social Science (CASS). He is widely recognized for his critical theories on African political economy, his critique of Western social science as a form of imperialism, and his advocacy for people-centered development and democracy in Africa.

Works

239 works

Title	Year	Language	Citations▼
Democracy and development in Africa	2001	en	3,336
A political economy of Africa	1981	en	2,513
Feasibility of democracy in Africa	2000	en	829
The African context of human rights	1987	en	251
What is the Problem of Ethnicity in Africa?	1993	en	206
Political economy of Nigeria	1985	en	199
The political economy of crisis and underdevelopment in Africa: Selected works of Claude Ake	1989	en	153
Explanatory notes on the political economy of Africa	1976	en	153
The future of the state in Africa	1985	en	137
The new world order: A view from Africa	2019	en	131
Charismatic legitimation and political integration	1966	en	130
The feasibility of democracy in Africa	1992	en	126
The case for democracy	1990	en	91
Explaining political instability in new states	1973	—	90
Political integration and political stability: A hypothesis	1967	en	89
13 Dangerous liaisons: the interface of globalization and democracy	1997	en	72
The state in contemporary Africa	1985	en	71
Development and democracy in Africa	1996	en	71
The new world order: A view from the south	1992	en	68
Building on the Indigenous	1991	en	65
Socio-political approaches and policies for sustainable development in Africa	1995	en	64
Academic freedom and material base	1990	en	59
Why is Africa not developing	1985	en	58
Devaluing democracy	1992	en	56
Why Humanitarian Emergencies Occur Insights from the Interface of State, Democracy and Civil Society	1997	en	51
Deeper into Original Sin: The Context of Ethical Crisis in Africa's Public Services	1993	—	48
Asymmetrical reciprocity: a contribution to the theory of political legitimacy [and comments and reply]	1980	—	47
The congruence of political economies and ideologies in Africa	1976	en	41
Shelling Nigeria Ablaze	1996	—	40
Re-thinking democracy in Africa	1991	en	39
Democratization of disempowerment	1994	en	39
Die Demokratisierung der Machtlosigkeit in Afrika	1994	entr.	34
The political economy of development: Does it have a future?	1988	—	33
Presidential address to the 1981 conference of the Nigerian Political Science Association	1981	en	32
Pan-Africanism and African Governments	1965	—	30
Ideology and objective conditions	1979	en	28
Globalization, multilateralism and the shrinking democratic space	1999	—	26
The Feasibility of Democracy in Africa (Dakar	2000	en	24
Raison D'etre	1986	en	23
Notes for a political economy of unemployment in Africa	1987	—	23
As Africa Democratises	1991	—	22
A plausible transition	1995	—	21
Development and underdevelopment	1993	—	21
Quality education in a dwindling economy	1988	—	20
Indigenization: problems of transformation in a neocolonial economy	1985	en	19
The present crisis in Africa: Economic crisis or a crisis of the State?	1989	—	18
The political economy of crisis and underdevelopment in Africa: Selected works of Claude Ake	1989	en	17
The theories and conception of leadership	1995	en	16
The political context of indigenization	1981	en	15
How politics underdevelops Africa	1987	—	14