The politics of African industrial policy
Subtitle: a comparative perspective
By: Lindsay Whitfield, Roskilde University, Denmark; Ole Therkildsen, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen; Lars Buur, Roskilde University, Denmark; Anne Mette Kjær, Aarhus University, Denmark
Contributors: Therkildsen, Ole; Buur, Lars; Kjær, Anne Mette
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781107105317
Subjects: Industrial policy; Economic policy; Business enterprises
Description: 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.--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The puzzle of limited economic transformation in Africa --; title: The case for economic transformation and industrial policy --; title: Assessing economic transformation in Africa --; title: Elaborated political settlements theory and clientelism in Africa --; title: Increased vulnerability and contestation in Mozambique and Tanzania --; title: Dispersed power and elite fragmentation in Ghana and Uganda --; title: Mozambique : between elite capture and pockets of efficiency --; title: Tanzania : intense contestation within a weak dominant party --; title: Ghana : competitive clientelism and weak capitalists --; title: Uganda : competing factions and conflicting elite interests --; title: Conclusions and perspectives.