Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa - Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana

Explains the strategies political parties use to extract money from the state and how these strategies shape government performance.

List of contents

1. The politics of extraction; 2. Extraction problems and party solutions; 3. Politics and party institutions in Benin and Ghana; 4. Extraction strategies in Benin and Ghana; 5. Staffing the state for extraction; 6. Extraction and the executive; 7. Extraction and the bureaucracy; 8. Reflections on parties, extraction, and state performance.

About the author

Rachel Sigman is Assistant Professor of Democratic Governance at the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and Project Manager with the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg. She previously served as an assistant professor at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Summary

Drawing upon in-depth case studies of Benin and Ghana, Rachel Sigman explains the strategies political parties use to extract money from the state and how these strategies shape government performance. Challenging conventional views of ineffective African states, Sigman develops a nuanced understanding of 'good governance' in Africa.

Foreword

Explains the strategies political parties use to extract money from the state and how these strategies shape government performance.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Sigman, Rachel (University of Denver) Sigman
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2024
• EAN: 9781009262828
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0926282-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Ghana, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Benin, Political campaigning & advertising, African History, Political campaigning and advertising, Political parties and party platforms