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Spatial Inequalities in African Political Economy

非洲政治经济中的空间不平等

基本信息

批准号：
ES/R005753/1
负责人：
Catherine Boone
金额：
$ 103.28万
依托单位：
London School of Economics and Political Science
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FR005753%2F1
关键词：
Spatial Inequalities African Political Economy

项目摘要

How do inequalities across subnational regions within African countries shape patterns of conflict, competition, and political mobilization? Is ethnic identity the only driver of political competition and division in African societies, as much journalistic work, and even much work in political science, would suggests? So far, these questions have been difficult to answer because scholars have lacked the kind of subnational, micro-level, and local institutional data that is needed to test hypotheses about the connection between regional and local socio-economic inequalities, on the one hand, and local, regional, and national patterns of political competition, on the other hand. The main objective of this project is to develop the theory and data needed to solve this analytic and policy problem. Based on our earlier research and the results of our LSE-funded pilot study, our objective is to show that there are economic, socio-economic and institutional drivers of regionalized competition that have been systematically overlooked in policy and social-scientific understandings of political competition and conflict in Africa. Our results should shift scholars' and policy-makers' attention away from simplistic analyses that overemphasize political identity (ethnicity) as a driver of politics, and toward factors amendable to policy and administrative reforms -- institutions and regional inequalities -- as drivers of competition and conflict. Lack of data and theory about the political effects of regional inequalities in sub-Saharan African countries persists in spite of the fact that many scholars recognize that African countries are characterized by extreme disparities across subnational regions (Brown and Langer 2009). This gap is costly for scholars, policy makers, and citizens alike: social scientists know that very high levels of spatial or "horizontal" inequality are correlated with socio-political ills that hit African countries hard. These include the underprovision of public goods, deep social cleavages, the prominence of political grievances around inequality and exclusion, and civil conflict (Stewart 2000). The PI and interdisciplinary research team are uniquely positioned to combine new data and analytic techniques with deep substantive expertise in the political economy of regional and territorial dynamics in African countries. We break new ground in the study of African politics by using spatial data to reveal the dynamics regionalism, uneven economic development, and territorial inequalities that drive political coalition-building, group mobilization, and partisan and factional rivalries over fundamental policy choices. There is no equivalent or precedent for this kind of work in the fields of social science that we represent: political science, geography, economic history, and development studies. We believe that our research will chart-out new research agendas for the study of African spatial inequalities across all these fields. Our research outputs -- approximately 6-8 open-access journal length articles in high-impact venues, publicly-available replication data sets for all our published work, open-access policy reports and LSE working papers, blog posts and podcasts, Year 3 conferences hosted by the LSE Africa Centre in London and the British Institute in Eastern Africa in Nairobi with presenters and discussants from the academic and policy communities, and a university press book by Boone (2 years after the end of the project) -- will open new scholarly frontiers in understanding of territorial dynamics underlying political coalitions and political competition in African countries.

非洲国家内部国家以下地区的不平等如何塑造冲突、竞争和政治动员的模式？种族认同是非洲社会政治竞争和分裂的唯一驱动力吗？这是许多新闻工作，甚至是许多政治学工作所暗示的吗？到目前为止，这些问题一直很难回答，因为学者们缺乏国家以下、微观和地方机构的数据，而这些数据是检验关于地区和地方社会经济不平等与地方、地区和国家政治竞争模式之间联系的假设所必需的。该项目的主要目标是开发解决这一分析和政策问题所需的理论和数据。根据我们早期的研究和我们的LSE资助的试点研究的结果，我们的目标是表明，有经济，社会经济和制度的驱动因素的区域化竞争，已被系统地忽视了政策和社会科学的理解在非洲的政治竞争和冲突。我们的研究结果应该将学者和政策制定者的注意力从过分强调政治身份（种族）作为政治驱动力的简单分析转移到政策和行政改革的因素-制度和地区不平等-作为竞争和冲突的驱动力。尽管许多学者认识到非洲国家的特点是国家以下各地区之间存在极端的差距，但关于撒哈拉以南非洲国家区域不平等的政治影响的数据和理论仍然缺乏（Brown and Langer 2009）。这一差距对学者、政策制定者和公民来说都是代价高昂的：社会科学家知道，空间或“横向”不平等的程度非常高，这与非洲国家遭受重创的社会政治弊病有关。这些问题包括公共产品供应不足、深刻的社会分裂、围绕不平等和排斥的政治不满突出以及国内冲突（Stewart 2000）。PI和跨学科研究团队具有独特的优势，可以将联合收割机新的数据和分析技术与非洲国家区域和领土动态政治经济学的深入实质性专业知识相结合。我们通过使用空间数据来揭示动态区域主义，经济发展不平衡和领土不平等，推动政治联盟建设，集团动员以及党派和派系竞争的基本政策选择，在非洲政治的研究中开辟了新天地。在我们所代表的社会科学领域中，政治科学、地理学、经济史和发展研究，没有类似的工作或先例。我们相信，我们的研究将制定新的研究议程，研究非洲在所有这些领域的空间不平等。我们的研究成果-大约6-8开放获取期刊长度的文章在高影响力的场地，公开复制数据集为我们所有的出版工作，开放获取政策报告和LSE工作文件，博客文章和播客，今年3会议主办的LSE非洲中心在伦敦和英国研究所在东非在内罗毕与演讲者和讨论者从学术界和政策界，以及Boone的一本大学出版社出版的书（项目结束后2年）--将在理解非洲国家政治联盟和政治竞争背后的领土动态方面开辟新的学术前沿。