Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa

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Sam Hickey (Professor of Politics and Development, Professor of Politics and Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester)

Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa

Sam Hickey (Professor of Politics and Development, Professor of Politics and Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester)

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English

Oxford University Press
13 April 2023

Development studies; Public administration; Political economy

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-BC-ND 4.0 International License. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Why do certain parts of the state in Africa work so effectively despite operating in difficult governance contexts? How do 'pockets of bureaucratic effectiveness' emerge and become sustained over time? And what does this tell us about the prospects for state-building and development in Africa?

Repeated economic and social crises have demanded that development thinkers and policy actors have had to engage with the critical role that states play in delivering development. Pockets of Effectiveness and the Politics of State-building and Development in Africa shows that politics is the driving factor that shapes how well state agencies perform their roles. It deploys a new conceptual framework DS the power domains approach DS to explore the shifting fortunes of key state agencies in five countries DS Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia DS over the past three decades. Our original research reveals when, how and why political rulers decide to build effective state agencies and enable them to deliver certain forms of economic development DS often through forming strategic coalitions with senior bureaucrats and with international support DS and also when this support falters and gives way to a politics of survival. Comparative analysis identifies two potential trajectories towards state-building in Africa, each shaped by different configurations of social and political power. The book critiques the role that international development agencies have played in (mis)shaping the state in Africa and suggests a new strategic agenda for building the state capacities required to deliver sustained development at the current juncture. The book closes with critical commentaries from two leading scholars in the field, to help place our work in context and establish the next steps for research and strategy in this increasingly important area of development theory and practice.

Edited by: Sam Hickey (Professor of Politics and Development Professor of Politics and Development Global Development Institute University of Manchester)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 616g
ISBN: 9780192864963
ISBN 10: 0192864963
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 13 April 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Merilee Grindle: Preface Part I: Introduction 1: Sam Hickey and Kate Pruce: PoEs and the politics of state-building and development in Africa 2: Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan: Reconceptualising the politics of PoEs: A power domains approach Part II: Case Studies 3: Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai: Political settlement dynamics and the emergence and decline of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Ghana 4: Matthew Tyce: 'Holding against the tide': The varying fortunes of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Kenya 5: Marja Hinfelaar and Caesar Cheelo: State capacity building in Zambia amidst shifting political coalitions and ideologies 6: Benjamin Chemouni: The politics of state capacity in post-genocide Rwanda: 'Pockets of effectiveness' as state-building prioritisations? 7: Sam Hickey, Badru Bukenya and Haggai Matsiko: The politics of PoEs in Uganda: trapped between neoliberal state-building and the politics of survival? Part III: Patterns and Ways Forward 8: Sam Hickey: Comparative analysis: PoEs and the politics of state-building and development in Africa 9: Julia Strauss: Pockets of effectiveness: Afterwords and new beginnings 10: Michael Roll: From pockets of effectiveness to topographies of state performance?

Sam Hickey is Professor of Politics and Development at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. As Research Director of the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) research centre (2011-2020), he worked with many colleagues on the links between politics and development, with particular reference to state capacity, natural resource governance, social protection, education, and gender equity. ESID's multiple open access books and papers on these topics are available at www.effective-states.org. He is currently Deputy CEO for the African Cities Research Consortium at the University of Manchester and President of the Development Studies Association.