Roger Tangri
Biographic Data
| ID | 110378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Tangri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Tangri |
| SIGNATURE | TANGRI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Botswana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Change and continuity in the politics of government-business relations in Museveni's Uganda
Since the 1990s, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government has undertaken market-based reforms which have sought to reduce the economic role of the state while promoting the private sector to become the prime motor of development. The reforms have promised to transform relations between government and business. We argue, however, that the government has maintained much discretionary authority over the distribution of public resources affe…
The Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa: Uganda in Comparative African Perspective
This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines elite corruption in government as well as in the political and military spheres of state activity, and focuses on illegal behaviour on the part of state and non-state actors in decision-making. Situating corruption and anti-corruption within a political framework, this book analyses the motivations, op…
Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa: Uganda in Comparative African Perspective
Museveni's Uganda: Paradoxes of power in a hybrid regime
Museveni's Uganda: paradoxes of power in a hybrid regime, by Aili Mari Tripp, Boulder (Colorado), Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. vii+223 pp. including figures, tables, notes, bibliography and inde
President Museveni and the politics of presidential tenure in Uganda
There are various reasons why President Museveni is so determined to hold on to power in Uganda. These are similar to the ones motivating other African presidents seeking to entrench themselves in office. Museveni believes he is indispensable for Uganda's stability and prosperity, especially in a country devastated by bad leadership in earlier post-independence decades. Moreover, Museveni and his close allies are fearful of being prosecuted under…
Elite Corruption and Politics in Uganda
We consider the nature of high-level state corruption in Uganda under the NRM. We discuss why elite corruption has occurred, what forms it has taken as well as why attempts to control it have proven so limited. We argue that high-level corruption has enabled the government to cement the loyalty of individual state leaders as well as to mobilise political support for maintaining the regime in power. Because corruption has underpinned support for t…
The Politics of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa
Since 1994, the black majority African National Congress (ANC) government has pursued several important goals at the same time, sometimes emphasising equity and redistribution of wealth, and sometimes advocating rapid economic growth and corporate investment. These goals have been difficult to reconcile with each other. They have led the government to fluctuate in its black economic empowerment (BEE) policies, shifting between a moderate and radi…
Politics, donors and the ineffectiveness of anti-corruption institutions in Uganda
Elite corruption in Uganda constitutes an essential means of consolidating the present government in power. Political leaders have therefore shown little commitment to act to curb practices that could affect their political support. Instead, anti-corruption institutions have been influenced and controlled whenever they threatened to expose the corrupt ways of Uganda's state elites. Donors have also for many years been reluctant to use their subst…
Military corruption & Ugandan politics since the late 1990s
The paper examines cases of corrupt military procurement in Uganda since the late 1990s. It also considers the illicit business activities of Ugandan army officers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1998. The paper then discusses how military corruption aroused the concern of parliament, and became a matter of importance in the 2001 presidential elections. We argue that the prevalence of military corruption was the result of government…
Corruption and cronyism in Uganda's privatization in the 1990s
Uganda's privatization in the 1990s was marred by malpractices and manipulations involving regime politicians and well‐connected individuals. This article is one of the first to document publicly an African case of privatization abuse. In particular, it documents a number of scandals that tainted privatization with serious accusations of corruption and cronyism. The article also examines aspects of corruption and governance in Uganda, arguing tha…
The Politics of Patronage in Africa: Parastatals, Privatization and Private Enterprise
Politics, capital and the state in sub‐Saharan Africa
In post‐colonial sub‐Saharan Africa, the private sector has lacked the capacity to play a leading economic and political role. The weaknesses of indigenous business and especially the absence of an autonomous class of private capital coupled with government controls over business associations have diminished the possibilities for local business to be at the forefront of economic and political activism. Quite extensive state ownership and public e…
The politics of Africa's public and private enterprise
(1995). The politics of Africa's public and private enterprise. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 169-184
Foreign Business and Political Unrest in Lesotho
Journal Article FOREIGN BUSINESS AND POLITICAL UNREST IN LESOTHO Get access ROGER TANGRI ROGER TANGRI Roger Tangri teaches in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, National University of Lesotho. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 367, April 1993, Pages 223–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098611 Published: 01 April 1993
The Politics of Government-Business Relations in Ghana
The emergence of a consensus that the performance of the public sector in Ghana had been poor, and that there were limits as to what it could achieve in terms of economic growth, led the Provisional National Defence Council (P.N.D.C.) to implement various policy reforms. As the Governor of the Bank of Ghana argued in 1984: 'Given the dismal performance of the public sector, there is need for greater reliance on private investment in the Governmen…
The Politics of States Divestiture in Ghana
Servir ou se servir ? A propos du Sierra Leone
Tangri Roger,Constantin François. Servir ou se servir ? A propos du Sierra Leone. In: Politique africaine, n°6, 1982. Le pouvoir d'être riche. pp. 5-18
Paramount chiefs and central governments in Sierra Leone
1980). Paramount chiefs and central governments in Sierra Leone. African Studies: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 183-195
Central—local Politics in Contemporary Sierra Leone
Journal Article CENTRAL—LOCAL POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY SIERRA LEONE Get access ROGER TANGRI ROGER TANGRI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 307, April 1978, Pages 165–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096959 Published: 01 April 1978
Kwacha: An Autobiography
Conflict and Violence in Contemporary Sierra Leone Chiefdoms
Violence has been a recurring feature of political life in provincial Sierra Leone for a long time. In 1898, two years after the establishment of colonial rule, a mass rebellion, commonly known as the Hut Tax War, and directed against British political authority, took place over a large part of the Protectorate. Thereafter, the violence which periodically disrupted the chiefdoms of the hinterland, during both the colonial and post-colonial period…
Colonial and Settler pressures and the African move to the politics of representation and union in Nyasaland
In 1938, African political leaders in Nyasaland began seeking direct African representation on the Legislative Council and also moved towards creating a nation-wide political organization. The simultaneous emergence of these two political strategies represented a rational African attempt to refine previous techniques in the face of changing circumstances. Hitherto, district-wide Native Associations had sought to influence directly the central gov…
Some New Aspects of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915
Literature relating to the Nyasaland native rising of 1915has been mounting steadily in recent years; new documentation has become available from British and Malawi archival sources and first steps have been taken to systematically record surviving oral testimonies. Although still heavily dependent upon George Shepperson's and Thomas Price's monumental and largely definitive study, 1 scholarship on the rising has been enhanced by the researches o…
Conference Papers from Malawi
Political Change in Colonial Malawi: A Bibliographical Essay
The literature and documentation relating to the study of colonial Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) is quite considerable, and is increasingly being augmented by the annual output of monographs and articles, by the continuous unearthing of private collections and papers, and by governmental archival records gradually becoming available for public inspection. The purpose of this essay is to provide a guide to some of the more important works and materi…
Military corruption & Ugandan politics since the late 1990s
The paper examines cases of corrupt military procurement in Uganda since the late 1990s. It also considers the illicit business activities of Ugandan army officers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1998. The paper then discusses how military corruption aroused the concern of parliament, and became a matter of importance in the 2001 presidential elections. We argue that the prevalence of military corruption was the result of government…
The Politics of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa
Since 1994, the black majority African National Congress (ANC) government has pursued several important goals at the same time, sometimes emphasising equity and redistribution of wealth, and sometimes advocating rapid economic growth and corporate investment. These goals have been difficult to reconcile with each other. They have led the government to fluctuate in its black economic empowerment (BEE) policies, shifting between a moderate and radi…
Politics, donors and the ineffectiveness of anti-corruption institutions in Uganda
Elite corruption in Uganda constitutes an essential means of consolidating the present government in power. Political leaders have therefore shown little commitment to act to curb practices that could affect their political support. Instead, anti-corruption institutions have been influenced and controlled whenever they threatened to expose the corrupt ways of Uganda's state elites. Donors have also for many years been reluctant to use their subst…
President Museveni and the politics of presidential tenure in Uganda
There are various reasons why President Museveni is so determined to hold on to power in Uganda. These are similar to the ones motivating other African presidents seeking to entrench themselves in office. Museveni believes he is indispensable for Uganda's stability and prosperity, especially in a country devastated by bad leadership in earlier post-independence decades. Moreover, Museveni and his close allies are fearful of being prosecuted under…
Corruption and cronyism in Uganda's privatization in the 1990s
Uganda's privatization in the 1990s was marred by malpractices and manipulations involving regime politicians and well‐connected individuals. This article is one of the first to document publicly an African case of privatization abuse. In particular, it documents a number of scandals that tainted privatization with serious accusations of corruption and cronyism. The article also examines aspects of corruption and governance in Uganda, arguing tha…
Central—local Politics in Contemporary Sierra Leone
Journal Article CENTRAL—LOCAL POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY SIERRA LEONE Get access ROGER TANGRI ROGER TANGRI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 307, April 1978, Pages 165–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096959 Published: 01 April 1978
Colonial and Settler pressures and the African move to the politics of representation and union in Nyasaland
In 1938, African political leaders in Nyasaland began seeking direct African representation on the Legislative Council and also moved towards creating a nation-wide political organization. The simultaneous emergence of these two political strategies represented a rational African attempt to refine previous techniques in the face of changing circumstances. Hitherto, district-wide Native Associations had sought to influence directly the central gov…
Elite Corruption and Politics in Uganda
We consider the nature of high-level state corruption in Uganda under the NRM. We discuss why elite corruption has occurred, what forms it has taken as well as why attempts to control it have proven so limited. We argue that high-level corruption has enabled the government to cement the loyalty of individual state leaders as well as to mobilise political support for maintaining the regime in power. Because corruption has underpinned support for t…
Conflict and Violence in Contemporary Sierra Leone Chiefdoms
Violence has been a recurring feature of political life in provincial Sierra Leone for a long time. In 1898, two years after the establishment of colonial rule, a mass rebellion, commonly known as the Hut Tax War, and directed against British political authority, took place over a large part of the Protectorate. Thereafter, the violence which periodically disrupted the chiefdoms of the hinterland, during both the colonial and post-colonial period…
Foreign Business and Political Unrest in Lesotho
Journal Article FOREIGN BUSINESS AND POLITICAL UNREST IN LESOTHO Get access ROGER TANGRI ROGER TANGRI Roger Tangri teaches in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, National University of Lesotho. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 367, April 1993, Pages 223–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098611 Published: 01 April 1993
Paramount chiefs and central governments in Sierra Leone
1980). Paramount chiefs and central governments in Sierra Leone. African Studies: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 183-195
The Politics of Government-Business Relations in Ghana
The emergence of a consensus that the performance of the public sector in Ghana had been poor, and that there were limits as to what it could achieve in terms of economic growth, led the Provisional National Defence Council (P.N.D.C.) to implement various policy reforms. As the Governor of the Bank of Ghana argued in 1984: 'Given the dismal performance of the public sector, there is need for greater reliance on private investment in the Governmen…
Politics, capital and the state in sub‐Saharan Africa
In post‐colonial sub‐Saharan Africa, the private sector has lacked the capacity to play a leading economic and political role. The weaknesses of indigenous business and especially the absence of an autonomous class of private capital coupled with government controls over business associations have diminished the possibilities for local business to be at the forefront of economic and political activism. Quite extensive state ownership and public e…
The Rise of Nationalism in Colonial Africa: The Case of Colonial Malawi
The years of colonial rule in Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) were characterised by the imposition of a political and social system whereby a superior European authority attempted to exercise its will over a territory already populated by Africans. This enforced colonial relationship determined the pattern of political change within the Protectorate, so that any variation in the fundamentals of the relationship was bound to have important repercussio…
Change and continuity in the politics of government-business relations in Museveni's Uganda
Since the 1990s, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) government has undertaken market-based reforms which have sought to reduce the economic role of the state while promoting the private sector to become the prime motor of development. The reforms have promised to transform relations between government and business. We argue, however, that the government has maintained much discretionary authority over the distribution of public resources affe…
The politics of Africa's public and private enterprise
(1995). The politics of Africa's public and private enterprise. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 169-184
The Politics of States Divestiture in Ghana
Political Change in Colonial Malawi: A Bibliographical Essay
The literature and documentation relating to the study of colonial Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) is quite considerable, and is increasingly being augmented by the annual output of monographs and articles, by the continuous unearthing of private collections and papers, and by governmental archival records gradually becoming available for public inspection. The purpose of this essay is to provide a guide to some of the more important works and materi…
The Rise of Nationalism in Colonial Africa: The Case of Colonial Malawi
The years of colonial rule in Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) were characterised by the imposition of a political and social system whereby a superior European authority attempted to exercise its will over a territory already populated by Africans. This enforced colonial relationship determined the pattern of political change within the Protectorate, so that any variation in the fundamentals of the relationship was bound to have important repercussio…
Some New Aspects of the Nyasaland Native Rising of 1915
Literature relating to the Nyasaland native rising of 1915has been mounting steadily in recent years; new documentation has become available from British and Malawi archival sources and first steps have been taken to systematically record surviving oral testimonies. Although still heavily dependent upon George Shepperson's and Thomas Price's monumental and largely definitive study, 1 scholarship on the rising has been enhanced by the researches o…
Conference Papers from Malawi
Colonial and Settler pressures and the African move to the politics of representation and union in Nyasaland
In 1938, African political leaders in Nyasaland began seeking direct African representation on the Legislative Council and also moved towards creating a nation-wide political organization. The simultaneous emergence of these two political strategies represented a rational African attempt to refine previous techniques in the face of changing circumstances. Hitherto, district-wide Native Associations had sought to influence directly the central gov…
Conflict and Violence in Contemporary Sierra Leone Chiefdoms
Violence has been a recurring feature of political life in provincial Sierra Leone for a long time. In 1898, two years after the establishment of colonial rule, a mass rebellion, commonly known as the Hut Tax War, and directed against British political authority, took place over a large part of the Protectorate. Thereafter, the violence which periodically disrupted the chiefdoms of the hinterland, during both the colonial and post-colonial period…
Kwacha: An Autobiography
Central—local Politics in Contemporary Sierra Leone
Journal Article CENTRAL—LOCAL POLITICS IN CONTEMPORARY SIERRA LEONE Get access ROGER TANGRI ROGER TANGRI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 307, April 1978, Pages 165–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096959 Published: 01 April 1978
Paramount chiefs and central governments in Sierra Leone
1980). Paramount chiefs and central governments in Sierra Leone. African Studies: Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 183-195
Servir ou se servir ? A propos du Sierra Leone
Tangri Roger,Constantin François. Servir ou se servir ? A propos du Sierra Leone. In: Politique africaine, n°6, 1982. Le pouvoir d'être riche. pp. 5-18
The Politics of States Divestiture in Ghana
The Politics of Government-Business Relations in Ghana
The emergence of a consensus that the performance of the public sector in Ghana had been poor, and that there were limits as to what it could achieve in terms of economic growth, led the Provisional National Defence Council (P.N.D.C.) to implement various policy reforms. As the Governor of the Bank of Ghana argued in 1984: 'Given the dismal performance of the public sector, there is need for greater reliance on private investment in the Governmen…
Foreign Business and Political Unrest in Lesotho
Journal Article FOREIGN BUSINESS AND POLITICAL UNREST IN LESOTHO Get access ROGER TANGRI ROGER TANGRI Roger Tangri teaches in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies, National University of Lesotho. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 367, April 1993, Pages 223–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098611 Published: 01 April 1993
The politics of Africa's public and private enterprise
(1995). The politics of Africa's public and private enterprise. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 169-184
Politics, capital and the state in sub‐Saharan Africa
In post‐colonial sub‐Saharan Africa, the private sector has lacked the capacity to play a leading economic and political role. The weaknesses of indigenous business and especially the absence of an autonomous class of private capital coupled with government controls over business associations have diminished the possibilities for local business to be at the forefront of economic and political activism. Quite extensive state ownership and public e…
The Politics of Patronage in Africa: Parastatals, Privatization and Private Enterprise
Corruption and cronyism in Uganda's privatization in the 1990s
Uganda's privatization in the 1990s was marred by malpractices and manipulations involving regime politicians and well‐connected individuals. This article is one of the first to document publicly an African case of privatization abuse. In particular, it documents a number of scandals that tainted privatization with serious accusations of corruption and cronyism. The article also examines aspects of corruption and governance in Uganda, arguing tha…
Military corruption & Ugandan politics since the late 1990s
The paper examines cases of corrupt military procurement in Uganda since the late 1990s. It also considers the illicit business activities of Ugandan army officers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 1998. The paper then discusses how military corruption aroused the concern of parliament, and became a matter of importance in the 2001 presidential elections. We argue that the prevalence of military corruption was the result of government…
Politics, donors and the ineffectiveness of anti-corruption institutions in Uganda
Elite corruption in Uganda constitutes an essential means of consolidating the present government in power. Political leaders have therefore shown little commitment to act to curb practices that could affect their political support. Instead, anti-corruption institutions have been influenced and controlled whenever they threatened to expose the corrupt ways of Uganda's state elites. Donors have also for many years been reluctant to use their subst…
Elite Corruption and Politics in Uganda
We consider the nature of high-level state corruption in Uganda under the NRM. We discuss why elite corruption has occurred, what forms it has taken as well as why attempts to control it have proven so limited. We argue that high-level corruption has enabled the government to cement the loyalty of individual state leaders as well as to mobilise political support for maintaining the regime in power. Because corruption has underpinned support for t…
The Politics of Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa
Since 1994, the black majority African National Congress (ANC) government has pursued several important goals at the same time, sometimes emphasising equity and redistribution of wealth, and sometimes advocating rapid economic growth and corporate investment. These goals have been difficult to reconcile with each other. They have led the government to fluctuate in its black economic empowerment (BEE) policies, shifting between a moderate and radi…
President Museveni and the politics of presidential tenure in Uganda
There are various reasons why President Museveni is so determined to hold on to power in Uganda. These are similar to the ones motivating other African presidents seeking to entrench themselves in office. Museveni believes he is indispensable for Uganda's stability and prosperity, especially in a country devastated by bad leadership in earlier post-independence decades. Moreover, Museveni and his close allies are fearful of being prosecuted under…
Museveni's Uganda: Paradoxes of power in a hybrid regime
Museveni's Uganda: paradoxes of power in a hybrid regime, by Aili Mari Tripp, Boulder (Colorado), Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. vii+223 pp. including figures, tables, notes, bibliography and inde
The Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa: Uganda in Comparative African Perspective
This book considers the causes of high-level state corruption as well as the political constraints of countering corruption in Africa. It examines elite corruption in government as well as in the political and military spheres of state activity, and focuses on illegal behaviour on the part of state and non-state actors in decision-making. Situating corruption and anti-corruption within a political framework, this book analyses the motivations, op…
Politics of Elite Corruption in Africa: Uganda in Comparative African Perspective
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