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Oil Democracy and Development in Africa
Author | : John R. Heilbrunn |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2014-04-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781107049819 |
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This book focuses on the history, key industry and policy actors, and political economic outcomes in oil-producing African states, filling a gap in the literature on resource-abundant countries by providing an optimistic assessment of circumstances in contemporary Africa.
Democracy Diamonds and Oil
Author | : Mohamed A. El-Khawas,J. Anyu Ndumbe |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015064688107 |
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Economic, political, and social factors stand at the heart of the struggle for African development. They are three sides of the same triangle and reform in each area must go hand-in-hand if a stable, sustainable and prosperous Africa is to emerge. This book examines the causes behind African leaders' failure to bring about political stability and economic development. Several factors are assessed, among them, (1) the impact of the one-party system on African societies, (2) deterioration of the economy and the social order, (3) civil war, and (4) poor management of resources, especially diamonds and oil.
Oil in the Gulf
Author | : Daniel Heradstveit |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781351914055 |
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The US-led war against Iraq in 2003 represented the most dramatic shake-up of regional politics in the Gulf for more than a decade. This book contains an up-to-date analysis of central questions affecting the construction of a post-Ba'th regime in Iraq, and charts possible ways forward in other key states of the region such as Saudi Arabia and Iran. At the heart of the analysis lies the tension between the US-sponsored vision of a democratic, free market Gulf region and local resistance to this model. This resistance, appearing in the shape of alternative visions of democracy and the state, could potentially present a challenge to US policy through the spread of repressive policies or terrorism, especially if Washington chooses to sideline the social forces behind it. Conversely, if this resistance were taken seriously by the US, it could form a point of departure for more fruitful interaction between traditions of government from the West and local politics. Future developments on this important issue will be of immense significance for the management of some of the world's largest oil and gas reserves, with immediate implications for both regional political stability as well as for the world economy.
The Scramble for African Oil
Author | : Douglas A. Yates |
Publsiher | : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-01-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0745330452 |
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Africa is often seen as a place to be pitied or feared as an area of instability. This book challenges these complacent assumptions, showing how our demand for oil contributes to the chronic problems plaguing the continent. Douglas A. Yates shows how the "scramble" by the great powers for African oil has fed corruption and undermined democracy. Yates documents how Africans have refused to remain passive in the face of such developments, forming movements to challenge this new attempt at domination. This book is an urgent challenge to our understanding of Africa, raising questions about the consequences of our reliance on foreign resources. It will be vital reading for all those studying development and global political economy.
Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada
Author | : Meenal Shrivastava,Lorna Stefanick |
Publsiher | : Athabasca University Press |
Total Pages | : 437 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781771990295 |
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In Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System, published in 1953, C. B. Macpherson explored the nature of democracy in a province that was dominated by a single class of producers. At the time, Macpherson was talking about Alberta farmers, but today the province can still be seen as a one-industry economy—the 1947 discovery of oil in Leduc having inaugurated a new era. For all practical purposes, the oil-rich jurisdiction of Alberta also remains a one-party state. Not only has there been little opposition to a government that has been in power for over forty years, but Alberta ranks behind other provinces in terms of voter turnout, while also boasting some of the lowest scores on a variety of social welfare indicators. The contributors to Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy critically assess the political peculiarities of Alberta and the impact of the government’s relationship to the oil industry on the lives of the province’s most vulnerable citizens. They also examine the public policy environment and the entrenchment of neoliberal political ideology in the province. In probing the relationship between oil dependency and democracy in the context of an industrialized nation, Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy offers a crucial test of the “oil inhibits democracy” thesis that has hitherto been advanced in relation to oil-producing countries in the Global South. If reliance on oil production appears to undermine democratic participation and governance in Alberta, then what does the Alberta case suggest for the future of democracy in industrialized nations such as the United States and Australia, which are now in the process of exploiting their own substantial shale oil reserves? The environmental consequences of oil production have, for example, been the subject of much attention. Little is likely to change, however, if citizens of oil-rich countries cannot effectively intervene to influence government policy.
The Petro developmental State in Africa
Author | : Jesse Salah Ovadia |
Publsiher | : Hurst & Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1849044767 |
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Local initiatives, local control and local ownership are increasingly characteristic of Africa's petroleum sector, as Ovadia sets out in his book
Dictators and Democracy in African Development
Author | : A. Carl LeVan |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781107081147 |
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This book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.
Towards Democratic Development States in Southern Africa
Author | : Godfrey Kanyenze,Herbert Jauch |
Publsiher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2016-12-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781779223081 |
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The dawn of the twenty-first century heralded an apparent change of fortunes for most sub-Saharan African economies, with annual growth averaging over 5% for fifteen years. However, this was not accompanied by structural transformation: poverty, food insecurity, unemployment and inequality persist. Structural transformation has not been - and indeed cannot be - delivered by market forces and neo-liberal economic policies; it requires a state committed to development, and to achieving it in a democratic way. To what extent do the countries of Southern Africa exhibit the characteristics of such a developmental state? What steps, if any, do they need to take in order to become one? The book answers the questions with respect to South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola and Malawi. Godfrey Kanyenze and his colleagues have assembled a distinguished team of writers to take the temperature of the regional political economy, and chart a path for its future development.