M. Anne Pitcher

Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that the interaction of formal institutions and the quality of democracy explain patterns of private sector development across Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780521738262
• ISBN-10: 0521738261
• Artikelnr.: 34934993

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.