State Legitimacy and Development in Africa / / Pierre Englebert.
Englebert argues that differences in economic performance both within Africa and across the developing world can be linked to differences in historical state legitimacy.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Part 1. State Capacity and Development
- 2. The Developmental Capacity of States
- 3. The Paradox of African State Capacity
- Part 2. Explaining Africa’s Capacity Crisis
- 4. Do Social Capital and Ethnic Homogeneity Really Matter?
- 5. State Legitimacy and Developmental Capacity
- Part 3. Confronting the Evidence
- 6. Accounting for Africa’s Development Crisis
- 7. Success and Failure Among African States
- 8. Conclusion: The African State in Transition
- Appendix 1: Notes on Methodology, Definitions, and Data Sources
- Appendix 2: Descriptive Statistics
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Book