Politicians, bureaucrats and farmers: A Zambian case study
通过对赞比亚东部地区的案例研究，质疑了独立后富裕农民通过政治主导和与官僚结盟而巩固地位的论点，指出这种观点忽视了历史连续性、政府基层运作及农民生活方式的多样性。
This case study from Eastern Zambia challenges the thesis that after independence an elite of privileged farmers entrenched itself through domination of the local political arena and a coalition with the civil service. It argues that such a view may be a reification due to misplaced assumptions about historical continuity and the uniformity of social behaviour; a lack of attention to the actual operation of government departments at the lowest levels; and neglect of how people construct ways of life on the basis of different interpretations of the world.