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An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.
Sommario
Introduction; 1. Leadership, politics and development; 2. Coming to power and using it: leaders' selection, change and government performance; 3. The Africa Leadership Change (ALC) dataset; 4. The changing dynamics of African leadership: rulers before and after 1990; 5. When the military strikes; 6. Lessening Africa's 'big men': term limits; 7. Leading for development? (I): economic growth; 8. Leading for development? (II): social welfare, state consolidation and corruption control; 9. Autocrats, hegemons, democrats and transients; 10. Leaders to come.
Info autore
Giovanni Carbone is Professor of Political Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano and Head of the Africa Programme at ISPI (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale). His research focuses on the comparative study of politics, geopolitics and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. He has been the Principal Investigator of a European Research Council (ERC) funded research project and is the author of articles in journals including Governance, Journal of Development Studies and Journal of Modern African Studies.Alessandro Pellegata is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano where his research is based within the field of comparative politics. He is the author of several articles in journals including European Political Science Review and Journal of European Public Policy. In 2011 he was awarded the Santoro Prize for the best paper presented by a young scholar at the Società Italiana di Scienza Politica (SISP) Annual Congress.
Riassunto
Do political leaders matter for development in Africa? This innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa draws on an entirely new dataset to understand how leaders and their contributions led to the developmental failures and successes of African countries between independence in the 1960s and 2018.
Testo aggiuntivo
'Carbone and Pellegata provide a powerful study on how leaders impact the success and failures of their countries in sub-Saharan Africa and how they reach power influences their behaviour and what they do too. Political Leadership in Africa is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the impact of leadership on democracy and development in sub-Saharan Africa today.' Alex Vines, Coventry University and Head of the Africa Programme, Chatham House
