Lindsay Whitfield (Denmark Roskilde Universitet), Ole Therkildsen, Lars Buur (Denmark Roskilde Universitet)

The Politics of African Industrial Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

Using comparative research to theorize about the politics of industrial policy in countries in the early stages of capitalist transformation that also experience the pressures of elections, this book provides four in-depth African country studies that illustrate the challenges to economic transformation and the politics of implementing industrial policies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781107512580
• ISBN-10: 1107512581
• Artikelnr.: 47552737

Autorenporträt

Lindsay Whitfield is Associate Professor in Global Studies and Development Studies in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The puzzle of limited economic transformation in Africa; Part I.
Rethinking the Political Economy of Development: 2. The case for economic
transformation and industrial policy; 3. Assessing economic transformation
in Africa; 4. Elaborated political settlements theory and clientelism in
Africa; Part II. Evolution of Political Settlements: 5. Increased
vulnerability and contestation in Mozambique and Tanzania; 6. Dispersed
power and elite fragmentation in Ghana and Uganda; Part III. African
Experiences with Industrial Policy: 7. Mozambique: between elite capture
and pockets of efficiency; 8. Tanzania: intense contestation within a weak
dominant party; 9. Ghana: competitive clientelism and weak capitalists; 10.
Uganda: competing factions and conflicting elite interests; 11. Conclusions
and perspectives.