The Politics of State Capacity and Development in Africa: Reframing and Researching ‘Pockets of Effectiveness’
The Politics of State Capacity and Development in Africa: Reframing and Researching ‘Pockets of Effectiveness’
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非洲国家能力和发展的政治：重新构建和研究“有效性的口袋”
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2019
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S. Hickey
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官僚“效率口袋"在推动发展方面的作用正在发展研究中引起新的兴趣，在一定程度上也在发展政策中引起新的兴趣。现有的关于PoEs的研究强调，政治在塑造高绩效公共部门组织的出现和可持续性方面发挥着主导作用。然而，该领域对这种情况发生的条件缺乏明确的认识。本文件阐述了一个新项目的概念和方法基础，该项目力求在撒哈拉以南非洲范围内解决这一问题。借鉴政治解决方案的分析与国家权力和非洲政治的批判理论的对齐，本文认为，PoE都塑造，并帮助复制，在撒哈拉以南非洲的政治和机构的特定形式。这意味着，诗歌可以很好地揭示政权生存、国家建设和民主化的竞争逻辑如何在非洲发挥作用，以及对发展的影响。该文件提出了一种方法，用于确定和探索PoEs，并总结了在加纳，卢旺达，乌干达和赞比亚进行的专家调查的结果。这些调查导致我们的项目主要集中在经济技术官僚作为关键领域，其中PoE蓬勃发展，特别是在财政部，中央银行和税务当局，沿着一些其他有趣的离群值和国家建设的基本过程。该项目的进一步文件将包括对每个国家的这些具体的实践活动和进程的深入案例研究、综合国别分析和比较概述。
The role of bureaucratic ‘pockets of effectiveness’ (PoEs) in driving development is generating renewed interest within development studies and, to an extent, development policy. Existing research on PoEs emphasises that politics plays a leading role in shaping the emergence and sustainability of high-performing public sector organisations. However, the field as yet lacks a clear sense of the conditions under which this happens. This paper sets out the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of a new project that seeks to address this problem within the context of sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on an alignment of political settlements analysis with critical theories of state power and African politics, the paper argues that PoEs are both shaped by, and help to reproduce, particular forms of politics and institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. This means that PoEs can reveal a good deal about how the competing logics of regime survival, state-building and democratisation are playing out in Africa, and the implications for development. The paper proposes a methodological approach for identifying and exploring PoEs and summarises the results of expert surveys undertaken in Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. These surveys resulted in our project focusing mainly on the economic technocracy as the key domain within which PoEs have flourished, particularly in terms of ministries of finance, central banks and revenue authorities, along with some other interesting outliers and underlying processes of state-building. Further papers from this project will include in-depth case studies of these specific PoEs and processes in each country, synthesised country analyses and comparative overviews.