The Relationship between Political and Economic Reform in Africa
The Relationship between Political and Economic Reform in Africa
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非洲政治与经济改革的关系
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10.2307/422181
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1996
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J. Herbst
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H. Bienen;J. Herbst
30多个非洲国家现在正试图同时开放其政治制度，并通过稳定和结构调整方案重振经济。因此，民主形式的政府是否有能力维持经济改革这一经典问题在撒哈拉以南非洲呈现出新的紧迫性。然而，对政体类型和经济管理之间的关系的分析并不是很有启发性。特别是，许多人试图在非常广泛的国家了解民主和经济增长之间的关系，而不是侧重于试图实现民主化的非洲国家面临的具体问题。在这篇文章中，我们确定了非洲政治制度和经济的显著特征，这些特征与理解政权类型和经济绩效之间的关系有关。通过研究一组有许多共同点的国家(贫穷、最近的独立、几乎没有制度化的民主做法)，我们希望对经济和政治改革之间的互动做出更有用的概括。我们的结论是，在非洲同时进行经济和政治改革将比世界上大多数其他区域更加困难。事实上，在非洲，通常可能促进同步变革可行性的许多因素都缺失了。
More than thirty African countries are now attempting simultaneously to liberalize their political systems and reinvigorate their economies with stabilization and structural adjustment programs. The classic question of the ability of democratic forms of government to sustain economic reform has therefore taken on new urgency in sub-Saharan Africa. However, analyses of the relationship between regime type and economic management have not been very illuminating. In particular, many have tried to understand the relationship between democracy and economic growth across a very broad range of countries instead of focusing on the specific problems faced by African countries that are trying to democratize. In this paper we identify the salient features of African political systems and economies that are relevant in understanding the relationship between regime type and economic performance. By examining a set of countries that have much in common (poverty, recent independence, few institutionalized democratic practices), we hope to make more useful generalizations about the interaction between economic and political reform.' We conclude that the simultaneous pursuit of economic and political reform in Africa will be even more difficult than in most other regions of the world. Indeed, many of the factors that normally might promote the viability of simultaneous change are missing in Africa.
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