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9781856498593

Disciplining Democracy Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa

by Abrahamsen, Rita
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    9781856498593

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    185649859X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-03-07
  • Publisher: ZED BOOKS

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Summary

This thought-provoking book does not simply link the West's good governance agenda with the demise of the Soviet Union. Abrahamsen shows that this democratic agenda involves little more than superficial institutional reforms. The West's primary goal in developing countries remains the enforcement of structural adjustment. African governments, in particular, remain in a double bind, nominally responsible to their electorates at home, but also beholden to external creditors and donors. Demands by impoverished electorates that their new democratic institutions actually work to defend their interests are often branded as illegitimate by the West.

Author Biography

Rita Abrahamsen is in the Department of International Relations, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Introduction ix
Democratisation and Development Discourse
1(24)
Conventional explanations
2(4)
Fictitious dichotomies
6(3)
A merely `technical' adjustment
9(4)
Power/knowledge and the invention of development
13(9)
Conclusion
22(3)
New World Order, New Development Discourse
25(22)
The changing fate of `democracy' in development
26(6)
The end of the Cold War
32(5)
The failure of structural adjustment programmes
37(5)
Power, hegemony and the good governance discourse
42(5)
The Seductiveness of Good Governance
47(20)
Alien state intervention, indigenous democratic capitalism
47(5)
Liberating civil society
52(4)
Empowerment through cost recovery
56(3)
Good governance as modernisation theory
59(5)
Conclusion
64(3)
The Democratisation of Poverty
67(19)
Democratic theory and contemporary debates
68(8)
Maintaining the status quo
76(6)
Conclusion
82(4)
Whose Democracy?
86(26)
The economic roots of democratic demands
87(11)
Victory for the friends of adjustment
98(11)
Conclusion
109(3)
Economic Liberalisation and Democratic Erosion
112(26)
No more `cruel choices'
113(4)
Two irreconcilable constituencies
117(4)
`Kill me now'
121(4)
Withering democracy?
125(7)
Exclusionary democracies
132(3)
Conclusion
135(3)
The Success of the Good Governance Discourse
138(10)
References 148(16)
Index 164

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