TY - BOOK ID - 467768 TI - Party politics and economic reform in Africa's democracies PY - 2012 SN - 9780521449625 9780521738262 0521449626 0521738261 9781139014700 1139419331 1139421379 1139423428 1139417282 1139014706 1139411047 1107224012 9781139423427 9781139419338 9781139411042 9781107224018 9781139421379 9781139417280 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Economic policy and planning (general) KW - Political parties KW - Africa KW - Democratization KW - #SBIB:328H41 KW - #SBIB:33H13 KW - Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen KW - Economische politiek KW - Economic policy. KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - E-books UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:467768 AB - In Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa's Democracies, M. Anne Pitcher offers an engaging new theory to explain the different trajectories of private sector development across contemporary Africa. Pitcher argues that the outcomes of economic reforms depend not only on the kinds of institutional arrangements adopted by states in order to create or expand their private sectors, but also on the nature of party system competition and the quality of democracy in particular countries. To illustrate her claim, Pitcher draws on several original data sets covering twenty-seven countries in Africa, and detailed case studies of the privatization process in Zambia, Mozambique and South Africa. This study underscores the importance of formal institutions and political context to the design and outcome of economic policies in developing countries. ER -