Richard Sandbrook
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3585666 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Sandbrook |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Sandbrook |
| FIRMA | SANDBROOK R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 72 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 240 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The Development of an African Working Class
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today
What is the most fruitful conceptualization of Karl Polanyi's 'double movement' in contemporary capitalist studies? For Polanyi, it is a conceptual device for explaining a particular historical sequence leading to the collapse of Western civilization in the 1930s and 1940s. For his current followers, the double movement is of broader and longer-term significance. Some conceive it as representing a continuous and inherent contradiction within capi…
Immiserizing Growth
Immiserizing Growth occurs when growth fails to benefit, or harms, those at the bottom. It is not a new concept, appearing such figures as Malthus, Ricardo and Marx. It is also not empirically insignificant, occurring in between 10% and 35% of cases, depending on the data set and the growth and poverty measures used. In spite of this, it has not received its due attention in the academic literature, dominated by the prevailing narrative that ‘gro…
Patrons, Clients, and Factions
Most treatments of African politics have explained political conflict in terms of ethnic antagonisms. In this environment patron-client ties linking the leaders and sub-leaders of various ethnic groups tend to proliferate. Both inter-tribal cooperation and intra-tribal conflict are to some extent explicable in terms of patron-client politics. This chapter discusses the various meanings of the terms such as patron-clientship, patronage, and politi…
Reinventing the Left in the Global South
This book offers a fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic Left in the Global South. The moral and intellectual leadership of the Left is shifting south from its European birthplace. It is in the Global South, most notably in Latin America, that one finds newly self-confident progressive movements. This 'new' democratic Left includes parties and social movements that not only are avoiding the familiar pitfalls that ensnar…
Polanyi and Post-neoliberalism in the Global South
Although Karl Polanyi Studied a different epoch and focused on Europe, his ideas have inspired an outpouring of studies on contemporary problems and prospects in the neoliberal era. The bulk of these studies pertain to industrial countries or global economic issues. However, the human, environmental and financial impact of market deregulation is arguably more devastating in the 'developing' countries than in the core. A question thus arises: do P…
Politics of Africa's Economic Recovery
Social Democracy in the Global Periphery
Social Democracy in the Global Periphery focuses on social-democratic regimes in the developing world that have, to varying degrees, reconciled the needs of achieving growth through globalized markets with extensions of political, social and economic rights. The authors show that opportunities exist to achieve significant social progress, despite a global economic order that favours core industrial countries. Their findings derive from a comparat…
Africa's Great Transformation
Origins of the Democratic Developmental State
RésuméLes états où la démocratie est autorisée à se développer sont rares. En effet, les exigences qui régissent leur émergence et leur efficacité sont extrêmement strictes. Dans le but de promouvoir l’équité en même temps que la croissance dans une économie essentiellement de marché, les dirigeants exigent non seulement la volonté d’atteindre ce but difficile, mais aussi un degré substantiel d’autonomie financière et une capacité bureaucratique …
Globalisation, extremism and violence in poor countries
Globalisation—understood as external and internal market liberalisation—generates conditions in poor countries that are conducive to the emergence of extremist movements, instability and conflict. Liberalisation and the accompanying requirement of macroeconomic stabilisation subject people to rapid and sometimes devastating changes in fortune. Yet globalisation has had vastly different effects in different countries. Many have succumbed to sporad…
Globalization and Human Rights
Globalization and Human Rights
Deepening Democracy to Fight Poverty
Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto. The most recent of his eight books on Africa is Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa (2000). The author wishes to thank, yet again, Cranford Pratt for a trenchant critique of an earlier draft of this article.DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACY in the Third World usually disappoint their electorates. The 'third wave' of democratization recently surging across t…
Disciplining Democracy
Closing the Circle
Closing the Circle
1. Patterns and Perspectives * 2. The Real World of African Democracy * 3. Democratization and Deadly Conflict * 4. Democratization and Market Reforms * 5. Democratization and State Rehabilitation * 6. Closing the Circle * References * Index
Globalization and the limits of neoliberal development doctrine
(2000). Globalization and the limits of neoliberal development doctrine. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 1071-1080
New hopes for the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)
The contradictions of neo‐liberal democracy
The article explores three inherent contradictions of neo‐liberal economic reform in sub‐Saharan Africa, with particular reference to Ghana, Mali, Niger, Zambia and Madagascar. First, it examines the paradox that the groups most disadvantaged by economic adjustment have been the main champions of democratic reform. Second, the article addresses the dilemma faced by governments that key areas of economic and social policy are determined by externa…
Towards a Sustainable Paper Cycle
The production of paper is a key economic activity accounting in value terms for about 2.5% of the world's industrial production and 2% of world trade. Paper products make a vital contribution to education, communications, packaging, and health care. In recent years the paper cycle has become the focus of environmental concerns about the impacts of forestry pollution from manufacturing, and waste. To address these concerns, the World Business Cou…
Reforming Dysfunctional Institutions Through Democratisation? Reflections on Ghana
How can Africa's societies reorient and rebuild state apparatuses where predatory, neo-patrimonial governance has held sway? This emerges as a key question if one accepts that dysfunctional institutions, and not just poor initial conditions, a hostile international environment, external shocks, or policy errors, have impeded Africa's economic recovery. Although analysts and organisations place differing weights on these various causes, few now di…
Ungass has run out of steam
The United Nations has made sustainable development one of its major objectives. But the way in which this is being pursued is likely to result in the UN system becoming increasingly marginalized in the process. This article suggests that far too much attention is given to international debates rather than to national and regional processes. The results of the UN Special Session ofJune 1997, called to review progressfive years after the UN Earth …
Economic Liberalization versus Political Democratization
(1997). Economic Liberalization versus Political Democratization: A Social-Democratic Resolution? Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 482-516
Interpreting the precautionary principle
Liberal Democracy in Africa
The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation
Polanyi and Post-neoliberalism in the Global South
Although Karl Polanyi Studied a different epoch and focused on Europe, his ideas have inspired an outpouring of studies on contemporary problems and prospects in the neoliberal era. The bulk of these studies pertain to industrial countries or global economic issues. However, the human, environmental and financial impact of market deregulation is arguably more devastating in the 'developing' countries than in the core. A question thus arises: do P…
The state and economic stagnation in Tropical Africa
Transitions without consolidation
historical conditions doom democratic experiments in that region.' Certainly, democrats there face formidable long-term structural hindrances: the low level of economic development and the accompanying high levels of poverty and illiteracy; the failure of many new democracies to reverse the economic decline of the 1980s and generate rising prosperity in the 1990s; and deep ethnic or communal cleavages which undermine mutual trust. Some historical…
Proletarians and African Capitalism
Part I. The economic, social and political context: 1. Workers, unions and dependent capitalism 2. Labour policy in Kenya Part II. The state and the internal organization of unions: 3. The tendency toward oligarchy 4. The persistence of internal conflict 5 The bases of cleavage Part III. Working-class action: 6. Unions and clientelist politics 7. Militant economism (1) 8 Militant economism (2) 9. State control and worker protest
The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation
Patrons, clients, and unions
Polanyi's Double Movement and Capitalism Today
What is the most fruitful conceptualization of Karl Polanyi's 'double movement' in contemporary capitalist studies? For Polanyi, it is a conceptual device for explaining a particular historical sequence leading to the collapse of Western civilization in the 1930s and 1940s. For his current followers, the double movement is of broader and longer-term significance. Some conceive it as representing a continuous and inherent contradiction within capi…
Globalization and the limits of neoliberal development doctrine
(2000). Globalization and the limits of neoliberal development doctrine. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 1071-1080
African Capitalists in African Development
African Capitalists in African Development, C. Leys The Ivoiren J. Rapley Domestic Capitalists and the State in Kenya, D. Himbara The African Petty Bourgeoisie and the Struggle for Acceptance in Zimbabwe, S. Nicholas Industrial Policy in Zimbabwe - the Role of the National Bourgeoisie, T. Ostergaard Accumulating Wealth, Consolidating Power - Renterism in Senegal, C. Boone The Alliance of Oil and Maize - the Response of Indigenous and State Capita…
Reforming Dysfunctional Institutions Through Democratisation? Reflections on Ghana
How can Africa's societies reorient and rebuild state apparatuses where predatory, neo-patrimonial governance has held sway? This emerges as a key question if one accepts that dysfunctional institutions, and not just poor initial conditions, a hostile international environment, external shocks, or policy errors, have impeded Africa's economic recovery. Although analysts and organisations place differing weights on these various causes, few now di…
Empowering People
Globalisation, extremism and violence in poor countries
Globalisation—understood as external and internal market liberalisation—generates conditions in poor countries that are conducive to the emergence of extremist movements, instability and conflict. Liberalisation and the accompanying requirement of macroeconomic stabilisation subject people to rapid and sometimes devastating changes in fortune. Yet globalisation has had vastly different effects in different countries. Many have succumbed to sporad…
Origins of the Democratic Developmental State
RésuméLes états où la démocratie est autorisée à se développer sont rares. En effet, les exigences qui régissent leur émergence et leur efficacité sont extrêmement strictes. Dans le but de promouvoir l’équité en même temps que la croissance dans une économie essentiellement de marché, les dirigeants exigent non seulement la volonté d’atteindre ce but difficile, mais aussi un degré substantiel d’autonomie financière et une capacité bureaucratique …
Ungass has run out of steam
The United Nations has made sustainable development one of its major objectives. But the way in which this is being pursued is likely to result in the UN system becoming increasingly marginalized in the process. This article suggests that far too much attention is given to international debates rather than to national and regional processes. The results of the UN Special Session ofJune 1997, called to review progressfive years after the UN Earth …
New hopes for the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)
Interpreting the precautionary principle
Hobbled Leviathans
The fact is,' a former head of the World Bank recently asserted, 'that the marked decline of key institutions is an important dimension of the crisis facing many sub-Saharan African countries. It is not simply that desirable institutional development may not yet have taken place, but rather that a number of previously able and functioning institutions are now losing their effectiveness.' Robert McNamara went on to observe that 'entire
The Peculiarities of African Labour and Working-Class History
Richard Sandbrook and Robin Cohen, eds.. The Development of an African Working Class: Studies in Class Formation and Action (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1975) A.T. Nzula, I.I. Potekhim, and A.Z. Zusmanovich, Forced Labour in Colonial Africa (London: Zed Press 1979) Ken Luckhardt and Brenda Wall, Organize or Starve: The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (London: Lawrence and Wishart 1980) Robin Cohen, Peter Gutkind, an…
The Working Class in the Future of the Third World
The historical role of the working class has recently been subject to reassessment. Frequently repudiated are the Marxist views that the proletariat constitutes either, as Marx's and Engels' classic scheme would have it, the revolutionary social force in capitalist societies, or, as Lenin believed, the pre-eminent element in a revolutionary alliance with the poorest strata of the peasantry, or, finally, as Mao holds, the leadership cadres needed …
The Politics of Africa ́s Economic Recovery
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 473 - 474
Personnalisation du pouvoir et stagnation capitaliste. L'État africain en crise
The crisis of the african state. In this paper which presents most of the themes of the author's last book, The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation, R. Sandbrook points out the importance of the State in the building of a capitalist economy. The author examines die functioning of african economies and notes the impossibility to accumulate. He describes the various types of political regimes and government. Various sources of legitimacy are t…
The Development of Corporate Capitalism in Kenya, 1918-1977
Is socialism possible in Africa
African Railwaymen
Patrons, clients, and unions
The Working Class in the Future of the Third World
The historical role of the working class has recently been subject to reassessment. Frequently repudiated are the Marxist views that the proletariat constitutes either, as Marx's and Engels' classic scheme would have it, the revolutionary social force in capitalist societies, or, as Lenin believed, the pre-eminent element in a revolutionary alliance with the poorest strata of the peasantry, or, finally, as Mao holds, the leadership cadres needed …
Workers, Unions, and Development in Africa
The International Studies Programme of the University of Toronto sponsored a conference on this topic from 6 to 8 April 1973, with participants not only from Canada, but also from Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The main aim was to assess the extent to which both radical and liberal writers are correct in ascribing to the working class a fairly passive rôle in Africa's economic a…
Africa Contemporary Record
Black Africa
Livres/Books
Livres/Books
Government and Labour in Kenya 1895-1963
Introduction: Currency and Exchange Rates Part 1: The Early Years, 1895-1901: Slavery and its Abolition. Porters. The Construction of the Uganda Railway. Other Labour Part 2: The Establishment of the Labour System, 1902-1914: Master, Servant and Government. Sadler, Hollis and Churchill, 1903-8. Girouard and Belfield, 1908-12. The 1912-13 Native Labour Commission. Conclusion Part 3: The First World War, 1914-1918: Military Labour: Labour within th…
African Railwaymen
The ‘Crisis’ in political development theory
Since the ‘crisis’ approach in its various manifestations has been represented as the acme of political development theorizing, it deserves a critical appraisal. But what makes one conceptual model superior to another one? A brief exploration into the philosophy of social science suggests that the choice of a framework should be underpinned by an awareness of its uses in the spheres of both political analysis and political action. This mode of ev…
Proletarians and African Capitalism
Part I. The economic, social and political context: 1. Workers, unions and dependent capitalism 2. Labour policy in Kenya Part II. The state and the internal organization of unions: 3. The tendency toward oligarchy 4. The persistence of internal conflict 5 The bases of cleavage Part III. Working-class action: 6. Unions and clientelist politics 7. Militant economism (1) 8 Militant economism (2) 9. State control and worker protest
Proletarians and African Capitalism
The Development of an African Working Class
The Development of an African Working Class
The Political Potential of African Urban Workers
La classe ouvrière a, l'hisioire le démontre, joué un rôle important lorsqu'il s'est agi d'encourager à la fois les réformes sociales et la révolution dans les pays industrialisés. Peut-on s'attendre à ce que les travailleurs urbains jouent un rôle analogue en Afrique tropicale étant donné les caractéristiques bien différentes du capitalisme périphérique? Les partisans de la théorie de l’ « aristocratie ouvrière » diraient que non. Mais cette thé…
The Development of an African Working Class
African Metropolis
Class Analysis and African Studies / Analyse de classe et études africaines
Colonialism and Underdevelopment in Ghana
The Labouring Poor and Urban Class Formation
On the Theory and Practice of the Laboring Poor
Is socialism possible in Africa
The Peculiarities of African Labour and Working-Class History
Richard Sandbrook and Robin Cohen, eds.. The Development of an African Working Class: Studies in Class Formation and Action (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1975) A.T. Nzula, I.I. Potekhim, and A.Z. Zusmanovich, Forced Labour in Colonial Africa (London: Zed Press 1979) Ken Luckhardt and Brenda Wall, Organize or Starve: The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (London: Lawrence and Wishart 1980) Robin Cohen, Peter Gutkind, an…
Books/Livres
Ghanaian Businessmen
Political science (63 obras) · Law (45 obras) · Economics (39 obras) · Politics (38 obras) · Sociology (30 obras) · Political economy (26 obras) · Development economics (25 obras) · Law (22 obras) · International Development and Aid (19 obras) · Democracy (18 obras)