Party Politics and the Political Economy of Ghana's Oil
Party Politics and the Political Economy of Ghana's Oil
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政党政治与加纳石油的政治经济学
DOI：
10.1080/13563467.2017.1349087
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Mohan G
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作者：
Mohan G
加纳作为一个新的石油生产国的地位引发了人们对资源的发展影响以及政治机构在这些进程中的作用的疑问。本文讨论的难题是，尽管加纳拥有强大的民主记录和享誉国际的石油治理立法，但该国石油开采的影响相当有限。造成这种情况的原因在于精英政治联盟的性质，我们将对加纳碳氢化合物的分析植根于政治定居点文献，这让我们超越了经常与“资源诅咒”思维联系在一起的“良好治理”方法。我们还超越了政治定居点理论的工具主义，考察了政治思想在塑造资源治理方面所起的作用。我们认为，联盟间的竞争总体上破坏了加纳石油的好处，但基于利益的粗暴解释不足以解释这些联盟之间的差异。
Ghana’s status as a new oil producer raises questions about the developmental effects of resources, and the role of political institutions in these processes. The conundrum this paper addresses is the rather limited impact of oil exploitation in Ghana despite the country’s strong democratic record and internationally acclaimed oil governance legislation. The reasons for this lie in the nature of elite-based political coalitions and we root our analysis of Ghana’s hydrocarbons in the political settlements literature, which moves us beyond the ‘good governance’ approaches so often linked to ‘resource curse’ thinking. We also move beyond the instrumentalism of political settlements theory to examine the role political ideas play in shaping resource governance. We argue that inter-coalitional rivalry has generally undermined the benefits of Ghana’s oil but that a crude interests-based interpretation is insufficient to explain differences between these coalitions.