The World Bank and Africa: The Construction of Governance States

by Harrison,Graham

• ISBN13: 9780415302807
• ISBN10: 0415302803
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781134414017
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-17
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This book explores the wide-ranging interventions of the World Bank in severely indebted African states. Graham Harrison investigates the politics of governance reform and the modes of external intervention in the institutions and processes of government in Africa. He provides a detailed examination of the three key issues which shape governance reform: the outcomes of economic liberalization; the degree of political stability; and the extent to which the governing elites of a particular debtor state establish close and cooperative relations with external agencies.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	x
Acknowledgements	xi
List of abbreviations	xii
PART I The governance encounter: the World Bank, governance states and a new sovereign frontier	1	(68)
The road to governance: the World Bank and Africa	3	(20)
Introduction	3	(4)
The World Bank: foundations of an international institution	7	(5)
Africa and the World Bank's regional encounters	12	(6)
From first to second generation reform: a governance manifesto	18	(4)
Conclusion: governance states and the realm of governance	22	(1)
Governance states in Africa: conceptualising the encounter between the World Bank and the sovereign frontier	23	(20)
Introduction	23	(1)
Beyond sovereignty	23	(3)
The history of governance states	26	(13)
Governance states: key features	39	(4)
Conceptualising the World Bank: governance and global regimes	43	(26)
Introduction	43	(1)
The World Bank as `liberalism in action'	44	(1)
Liberalism and history	45	(5)
The World Bank as `agent of capitalism'	50	(2)
Marx without class?	52	(4)
Historicising the World Bank: international organisations and capitalist regimes	56	(8)
Embedding neoliberalism	64	(3)
Summary of Part I	67	(2)
PART II Constructing governance states: institutions, discourse, security	69	(64)
Introducing post-conditionality	71	(11)
Governance and post-conditionality	71	(3)
Post-conditionality in Uganda and Tanzania	74	(3)
The three faces of administrative reform in sub Saharan Africa	77	(5)
The mechanics of post-conditionality	82	(16)
`New' ministries	82	(5)
The post-conditionality state: donor/creditors	87	(4)
The contradictions of post-conditionality politics	91	(6)
Conclusion: evaluating post-conditionality administrative reform	97	(1)
Liberalism and the discourse of reform in governance states	98	(19)
Introduction	98	(1)
Administrative reform and liberal discourse	99	(1)
Administrative reform and liberal intervention	100	(3)
A vocabulary of liberal governance discourse	103	(5)
Politics without power?	108	(7)
Conclusion	115	(2)
Securing governance states	117	(11)
Introduction	117	(1)
The search for stability	118	(2)
Stability and risk	120	(1)
Governance reform as security	121	(4)
Stabilisation, state elites, and the importance of `politics'	125	(2)
Conclusion	127	(1)
Neoliberalism's revenge?	128	(5)
Summary	128	(1)
Embedding neoliberalism and international regimes	129	(2)
Embedding neoliberalism and national societies	131	(2)
Notes	133	(8)
Bibliography	141	(20)
Index	161