Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-Building and Development in Africa

Herausgeber: Hickey, Sam

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows that politics is the driving factor that shapes how well state agencies perform their roles. It deploys a new conceptual framework - the power domains approach - to explore the shifting fortunes of key state agencies in five countries - Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia - over the past three decades.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780192864963
• ISBN-10: 0192864963
• Artikelnr.: 67735610

Autorenporträt

Sam Hickey is Professor of Politics and Development at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. As Research Director of the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) research centre (2011-2020), he worked with many colleagues on the links between politics and development, with particular reference to state capacity, natural resource governance, social protection, education, and gender equity. ESID's multiple open access books and papers on these topics are available at www.effective-states.org. He is currently Deputy CEO for the African Cities Research Consortium at the University of Manchester and President of the Development Studies Association.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Part I: Introduction
* 1: Sam Hickey and Kate Pruce: PoEs and the politics of state-building
and development in Africa
* 2: Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan: Reconceptualising the politics of
PoEs: A power domains approach
* Part II: Case Studies
* 3: Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai: Political settlement dynamics and the
emergence and decline of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in
Ghana
* 4: Matthew Tyce: 'Holding against the tide': The varying fortunes of
bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Kenya
* 5: Marja Hinfelaar and Caesar Cheelo: State capacity building in
Zambia amidst shifting political coalitions and ideologies
* 6: Benjamin Chemouni: The politics of state capacity in post-genocide
Rwanda: 'Pockets of effectiveness' as state-building prioritisations?
* 7: Sam Hickey, Badru Bukenya and Haggai Matsiko: The politics of PoEs
in Uganda: trapped between neoliberal state-building and the politics
of survival?
* Part III: Patterns and Ways Forward
* 8: Sam Hickey: Comparative analysis: PoEs and the politics of
state-building and development in Africa
* 9: Julia Strauss: Pockets of effectiveness: Afterwords and new
beginnings
* 10: Michael Roll: From pockets of effectiveness to topographies of
state performance?