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Elite Values, Ideology, and Power in Post-Independence Zambia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

James R. Scarritt
James R. Scarritt*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
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In this paper an attempt will be made to provide answers to the following questions: (1) What was the pattern of political values held by members of the Zambian elite soon after independence? (2) How did these values develop out of the experiences of elite members during the struggle for independence? (3) How have the events of subsequent post-independence years influenced these elite values, and specifically, what is the relationship between earlier elite values and the ideology of “Zambian Humanism” which has only recently been articulated in a systematic way? (4) What have been the consequences for the Zambian political system of the interaction among elite values, ideology, and problems of exercising power? The answers given to these questions will be more meaningful and more easily understood if we first present briefly a theoretical framework which includes definitions of the principal concepts employed in the paper and a discussion of the interrelations among them.

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Research Article
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African Studies Review , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , April 1971 , pp. 31 - 54
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1971

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