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Every day Governance Practice and Development in Africa

Every day Governance Practice and Development in Africa. Prof. Graham Harrison Department of Politics University of Sheffield, UK g.harrison@sheffield.ac.uk. Aims of presentation. To explore the interactions between governance and development To explore governance as practice

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Every day Governance Practice and Development in Africa

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  1. Every day Governance Practice and Development in Africa Prof. Graham Harrison Department of Politics University of Sheffield, UK g.harrison@sheffield.ac.uk

  2. Aims of presentation • To explore the interactions between governance and development • To explore governance as practice • To reflect on the prospects for developmental states in Africa

  3. Governance and Development • Defining development • Liberal models • Good governance = Development? • Developmental states

  4. What is the Problem? • Mass poverty • Low productivity and unstable livelihoods • The state against development: • ‘Vampire’ • ‘Weak’ • Criminalised • Dependent

  5. Governance as social practice • A move away from Afropessimism • Complexity • Dynamism • Interactive

  6. Forms of governance practice I: the ‘governance realm’ • Donors, technologies of PRSP, external credit/loans • Nationalist politics • Patrimonial politics

  7. Forms of governance practice II: ‘grassroots’ governance • Vernacular politics • Decentralised liberalism • Development politics • Extractive politics • Ethnic politics • Patrimonial politics

  8. Prospects • State legitimacy and social provision • Enduring cultures of nationalism and self-determination • Demands for accountability

  9. Problems • Development and political order • Corruption and ‘cronyism’ • International agencies and constrained ‘development space’ • Global resource strategies

  10. Conclusion • Modest development • Insurgent unorthodoxies • New demands for accountability • National developmental blocs

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