Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies.

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pitcher, M. Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:African Studies, 119.
Temas:
Political parties > Africa.
Democratization > Africa.
Démocratisation > Afrique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
Democratization
Political parties
Partei
Demokratie
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Wirtschaftsreform
Africa
Subsaharisches Afrika
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies; AFRICAN STUDIES; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables, Figures, and Maps; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Understanding Institutional Development in AfricaAn Introduction; Debates About Economic Reform in Africa; Institutions and Credible Commitments; The Politics of Institutional Development; Democratic Demands and Constraints on Reform; Party Politics and Economic Reform; Organization of the Book; 2 From Motivational to Imperative Commitment; Introduction; From Conditionality to Commitment.
  • Theoretical and Conceptual Dilemmas of CommitmentAn Index of Motivationally Credible Commitments; Motivationally Credible Commitments: Institutional Variation and Convergence; From Motivationally Credible Commitments to Commitments that are Credible in the Imperative Sense; Relationship between Motivational Commitment and Sales of SOEs; Relationship between Motivational Commitments and Commitments That are Credible in the Imperative Sense; Conclusion; 3 The Impact of Party Politics and Democratic Quality on Economic Reform; Imperative Credibility in Emerging Democracies.
  • Explaining Divergent Combinations of Rules Versus DiscretionVariation in Democratic Quality; Party Characteristics and Party System Typologies in Africa; Fragmented versus Stable Party Systems; Parties and Economic Transformation; Empirical Illustration of the Argument; Conclusion; 4 Party Fragmentation and Ad Hoc Private Sector Development in a Limited Democracy; Introduction; The Beneficiaries of Privatization in Zambia; The Distributional Consequences of Reform; Explaining Reform Outcomes: Institutional Design, 1991-1996; Explaining Reform Outcomes II: Party Politics and Limited Democracy.
  • Party PoliticsThe Quality of Democracy: Pluralism without Participation; The Impact of Party Politics and Democratic Quality on Reform: 1996-2008; Conclusion; 5 Stable Parties, Limited Democracy, and Partisan Private Sector Development; Privatization in Mozambique; The Distributional Consequences of Reform; Explaining Reform Outcomes I: Institutional Design; Explaining Reform Outcomes II: Party Politics and Limited Democracy; Party Organization; Parties in the Electorate; Parties and Economic Policy; Quality of Democracy; The Effects of Party Politics and Democratic Quality on Reform.
  • Conclusion6 Stable Parties, Liberal Democracy, and Strategic Compromise; Privatization and Restructuring in the New South Africa; Institutional Change after Apartheid; The Characteristics of Investors and Investment; Policy Outcomes and Political Contestation; Contingent Discretion and Institutional Layering; Stable Party Politics and Liberal Democracy; Party Organization; Attracting Votes; The Party in Government; Liberal Democracy in an Era of Restructuring; Institutional Checks and Balances on Economic Policy Choice; Civil Society I: Privatization and Its Critics.
  • Civil Society II
  • Business and Management.

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