Umfang:
1 online resource (330 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780521449625
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9781139419338
Serie:
African Studies v.Series Number 119
Inhalt:
Pitcher offers an engaging theory to explain different patterns of private sector development across Africa. She argues that the interaction of formal institutions, party system competition and the quality of democracy explain patterns of private sector development across Africa
Anmerkung:
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 Africa An 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 Commitment -- An 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 Discretion -- Variation 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 Politics
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The 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 -- Conclusion -- 6 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 -- Politics and Policy Compromise: 2000-2009 -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion: Rules, Politics, and Discretion -- Assessing Credible Commitments -- The Political Dynamics of Institutional Development -- Extending Cross-National Comparisons -- Implications, Predictions, and Future Research -- Appendix 1: Coding Scheme: Indicators of Motivational Commitments -- Appendix 2: Coding Scheme: Indicators of Imperative Commitments -- Appendix 3: Effective Number of Parliamentary Parties (ENPP) in Nine African Democracies c. 1990s-2000s -- Bibliography -- Index -- Books in This Series
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Pitcher, M. Anne Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies New York : Cambridge University Press,c2012 ISBN 9780521449625
Sprache:
Englisch
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