Format:
Lit.
ISBN:
027594221X
Content:
As the economic conditionalities of the 1980s are joined by political conditionalities in the 1990s as elements within the continent's structural adjustment "project", African States and studies are in a profound period of revisionism. The relative optimism and expansion of the initial independence years have long since been superseded by pessimism and contraction as successive energy, drought, debt, and devaluation shocks have resulted in impoverishment and inequalities. The current mood of revisionism is characterized by a mix of pessimism and optimism in which a selective mixture of modernization and materialist explanations is being sought. However, given the great expectations generated by structural adjustment reformism and subsequent notions of democratic (and now sustainable) development, there is likely to be more pessimism than optimism by the end of the decade and century. The author predicts a return to authoritarianism rather than the triumph of capitalism and pluralism for essentially two reasons: first, the fallacy of composition of the international economy and second, the fallacy of composition of the national polity. (Documentatieblad/ASC Leiden)
In:
Beyond structural adjustment in Africa, New York [u.a.] : Praeger, 1992, , Seite 49-70, 027594221X
In:
pages:49-70
Language:
English
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