Personnalisation du pouvoir et stagnation capitaliste. L'État africain en crise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4266175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Sandbrook (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-40 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politique africaine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0244-7827 • E-ISSN: 2264-5047 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/polaf.1987.3867 |
| OpenAlex | W4376060549 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 3 |
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 then analyzed. The central feature of these systems is personal rule or «neopatrimonialism». The absence of a real bureaucracy leads to the failure of all state economies. Some states are fictitious, others are strong (as Ivory Coast or Kenya). The illegal and informal economy is destroying the state. Sandbrook outlines survival strategies for reform, against a liberal «all for the market» conception
Bureaucracy · Economic stagnation · Economics · Economy · Impossibility · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Social Sciences and Governance
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Highly cited | No |