Del 119 - African Studies

Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Av M. Anne Pitcher, New York) Pitcher, M. Anne (Colgate University

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In Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies, M. Anne Pitcher offers an engaging new theory to explain the different trajectories of private sector development across contemporary Africa. Pitcher argues that the outcomes of economic reforms depend not only on the kinds of institutional arrangements adopted by states in order to create or expand their private sectors, but also on the nature of party system competition and the quality of democracy in particular countries. To illustrate her claim, Pitcher draws on several original data sets covering twenty-seven countries in Africa, and detailed case studies of the privatization process in Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa. This study underscores the importance of formal institutions and political context to the design and outcome of economic policies in developing countries.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-05-07
Mått153 x 228 x 17 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAfrican Studies
Antal sidor328
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521738262
UtmärkelserShort-listed for Best Book Award, African Politics Conference Group 2012

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M. Anne Pitcher is Professor of Political Science and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Politics in the Portuguese Empire: The State, Industry, and Cotton, 1926–1974 (1993). She co-edited African Postsocialisms with Kelly Askew (2006) and her articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, the Journal of Modern African Studies, African Studies Review and Politique Africaine, among other publications. In 2003–2004, she was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. To explore patterns of political and economic reform across Africa, she has conducted extensive research in Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, Angola and Uganda.

1. Understanding institutional development in Africa: an introduction; 2. From motivational to imperative commitment: variation and convergence of private sector institutions across Africa; 3. The impact of party politics and democratic quality on economic restructuring; 4. Party fragmentation and 'ad hoc' privatization in a limited democracy: Zambia; 5. Stable parties, limited democracy, and strategic compromise: Mozambique; 6. Stable parties, limited democracy, and strategic compromise: South Africa; 7. Conclusion: rules, politics, and discretion.

'Anne Pitcher has identified an important gap in the study of economic reform in Africa … Based on extensive fieldwork in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zambia; a familiarity with several other countries; and the creation of original datasets for 27 African countries, [she] uses a mix of methods to argue persuasively that the quality of democracy and the dynamics of political party systems have a decisive impact on the nature of market reform efforts across the continent … the book also makes a plea for bringing these two strands of scholarship together and makes a significant contribution to the comparative politics literature from which African cases have been largely missing. With carefully crafted cases and thoughtful theorization, the book is essential to our understanding of the politics of transition and reform of economies over the last two decades and going forward in Africa.' Gretchen Bauer, University of Delaware