Pockets of effectiveness and the politics of state-building and development in Africa Hickey, Samuel 1972- editor. Grindle, Merilee 1945- writer of foreword. text bibliography Electronic books. Case studies enk 2023 2023 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (xxi, 280 pages) : illustrations "This collection explores the critical role of the state and processes of state-building in delivering development through a focus on high-performing state agencies in Africa. It offers the most systematic investigation into the phenomenon of ‘pockets of effectiveness' (PoEs) to date, with a particular focus on examining the political, organizational, and international factors that shape state capacity and state performance. A new ‘power domains' framework, which combines political settlements and policy domains analysis, is applied to fifteen organizational case studies drawn from the realm of economic governance in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. A mixture of within-case process tracing and between-case comparisons helps identify two main pathways through which PoEs emerge and retain their effectiveness over time, depending on the type of political settlement. This has important implications for the future of both political and economic development in Africa, as shaped by the often-tense relationships between state-building, democratization, and the politics of survival. The book also explores the powerful influence of international development in shaping the pattern of state capacity and performance in Africa and argues for a shift away from investments in the ‘agents of restraint' associated with neoliberal governance towards building the capabilities required to achieve structural transformation. The volume closes with two critical commentaries from leading experts in the field, each of which appraises the book's contribution before suggesting ways forward for the wider field of studies into PoEs and state-building in the Global South"--Publisher's description. Pockets of effectiveness and the politics of state-building and development in Africa / Sam Hickey and Kate Pruce -- Reconceptualizing the politics of pockets of effectiveness: a power domains approach / Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan -- Political settlement dynamics and the emergence and decline of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Ghana / Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai -- 'Holding against the tide': the varying fortunes of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Kenya / Matthew Tyce -- State capacity-building in Zambia amidst shifting political coalitions and ideologies / Caesar Cheelo and Marja Hinfelaar -- The politics of state capacity in post-genocide Rwanda: 'Pockets of effectiveness' as state-building prioritizations? / Benjamin Chemouni -- The politics of PoEs in Uganda: trapped between neoliberal state-building and the politics of survival? / Sam Hickey, Badru Bukenya, and Haggai Matsiko -- Comparative analysis: PoEs and the politics of state-building and development in Africa / Sam Hickey -- Pockets of effectiveness: afterwords and new beginnings / Julia C. Strauss -- From pockets of effectiveness to topographies of state performance? / Michael Rol edited by Sam Hickey ; with a foreword by Merilee Grindle. Includes bibliographical references and index. fb----- Africa, Sub-Saharan Politics and government 21st century Public administration Africa, Sub-Saharan Case studies Nation-building Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic development Political aspects Africa, Sub-Saharan Economic development Africa, Sub-Saharan Afrique subsaharienne Politique et gouvernement 21e siècle Reconstruction d'une nation Afrique subsaharienne Développement économique Aspect politique Afrique subsaharienne Développement économique Afrique subsaharienne Public Affairs & Administration POLITICAL SCIENCE Economic Policy Public Policy SOCIAL SCIENCE Economic development Political aspects Nation-building Politics and government Public administration Sub-Saharan Africa 2000-2099 fast JQ1875 .P63 2023 320.967 OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN Pockets of effectiveness and the politics of state-building and development in Africa Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023] (DLC) 2022945379 (OCoLC)1351677921 9780192688378 0192688375 9780192688361 0192688367 9780191955402 019195540X 9780192864963 0192864963 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/46853 YDX 230707 20260318165727.5 in00005698500 eng