The politics of African industrial policy : a comparative perspective

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The politics of African industrial policy : a comparative perspective

Lindsay Whitfield, Ole Therkildsen, Lars Buur, Anne Mette Kjær

Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Originally published: 2015

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-335) and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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