Lindsay Whitfield, Ole Therkildsen, Lars Buur

The Politics of African Industrial Policy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book engages in the debate on growth versus economic transformation and the importance of industrial policy, presenting a comprehensive framework for explaining the politics of industrial policy. 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 due to democratization, 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: 28. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 731g
• ISBN-13: 9781107105317
• ISBN-10: 1107105315
• Artikelnr.: 42138391

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.