Onyango, Gedion ORCID: 0000-0003-4984-2906 (2023) State politics and public policy in Africa: a state transformation perspective. In: State Politics and Public Policy in Eastern Africa: A Comparative Perspective. Springer International (Firm), pp. 21-52. ISBN 9783031134890
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Abstract
This chapter crafts a state transformation perspective. It conceptualises three kinds of state politics: politics of domination, politics of consolidation and politics of participation. While these forms of state politics may be associated with different phases during the state’s political institutionalisation, they operate simultaneously in Africa’s political landscape. The result is the emergence of complex but functional or hybrid political and administrative systems. In this manner, the public policy as optimal means and ends or the matching of political objectives to the public interest remains unclear as governments struggle to realise structures and norms that leverage their legitimacy and popular participation at the same time. A state transformation analysis essentially puts into context the African state’s colonial legacies and its journey towards optimising bureaucratic rationality, national integration and democratisation as pillars of the modern state. This chapter’s discussion draws on different cases, historical analyses and secondary data to contextualise this perspective in Eastern Africa.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Additional Information: | © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023. |
Divisions: | ?? FLIA ?? |
Subjects: | J Political Science |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2024 15:00 |
Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2024 19:36 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/123765 |
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