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Author: John R. Heilbrunn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-21
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107049814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: John R. Heilbrunn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-21
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1139917013
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOil, Democracy, and Development in Africa presents an optimistic analysis of the continent's oil-producing states. With attention to the complex histories, the interactions of key industry actors and policy makers, and the goals of diverse groups in society, this contribution fills a gap in the literature on resource-abundant countries. John R. Heilbrunn presents a positive assessment of circumstances in contemporary African oil exporters. The book demonstrates that even those leaders who are among the least accountable use oil revenues to improve their citizens' living standards, if only a little bit. As a consequence, African oil producers are growing economically and their people are living under increasingly democratic polities. Heilbrunn thus calls for a long-overdue reassessment of the impact of hydrocarbons on developing economies.
Author: Mohamed A. El-Khawas
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEconomic, 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.
Author: A. Carl LeVan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1107081149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that the structure of the policy-making process in Nigeria explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors.
Author: Jesse Salah Ovadia
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781849044769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocal initiatives, local control and local ownership are increasingly characteristic of Africa's petroleum sector, as Ovadia sets out in his book
Author: Meenal Shrivastava
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1771990295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Douglas A. Yates
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2012-01-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780745330464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica 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.
Author: Wanjala S. Nasong'o
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-08-10
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1793645590
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican Governance, Security, and Development explores the political economy of development in Africa. The contributors examine the impact and implications of the democratization process in Africa with particular focus on issues of economic, social, and institutional development. Through a variety of critical perspectives and disciplines, contributors analyze topics such as the impact of democratization on governance and institutional development, foreign aid and foreign direct investment, terrorism in Africa, identity politics, and the politics of oil extraction. African Governance, Security, and Development features the voices of scholars from institutions of higher learning in Africa and showcases case studies from the continent, bringing much-needed African and Africanist perspectives to current discussions about African political development and economy.
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Published: 1995
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ISBN-13: 9789995366346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gordon Crawford
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-03-26
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1788112652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring and updating the controversial debates about the relationship between democracy and development, this Research Handbook provides clarification on the complex and nuanced interlinkages between political regime type and socio-economic development. Distinguished scholars examine a broad range of issues from multidisciplinary perspectives across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
