Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa

ISBN-13: 9781009262835 / Twarda / 2023 / 332 str.

California) Sig Monterey Rachel (Naval Postgraduate School

Opis

Explains the strategies political parties use to extract money from the state and how these strategies shape government performance.

Recenzje

'Making excellent use of surveys, interviews of officials, archival research, and data on individual government ministers, Sigman's new book notes that this practice varies greatly across states, depending on the nature of the party system in place.' Nicolas van de Walle, Foreign Affairs

Spis treści

1. The politics of extraction; 2. Extraction problems and party solutions; 3. Politics and party institutions in Benin and Ghana; 4. Extraction strategies in Benin and Ghana; 5. Staffing the state for extraction; 6. Extraction and the executive; 7. Extraction and the bureaucracy; 8. Reflections on parties, extraction, and state performance.