Economic recovery and politics in the PNDC's Ghana
A leading model of African political economy in the late 1970s and early 1980s held that African governments pursued 'antidevelopmental' policies in order to secure political quiescence from politically influential urban-based middle and working classes. Seen in this light, the Structural...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The journal of Commonwealth and comparative politics |
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Sprache: | eng |
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1990
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Ghana
> 1982-1989
> Wirtschaftliche Anpassung
> IWF-Kredit
> Innenpolitik
> Einparteiensystem
> Herrschaftssystem
> Entwicklungspolitik
> Strukturanpassung
> Programm
> Wirtschaftsförderung
> Wirtschaftsentwicklung
> Machtpolitik
> Maßnahme
> Politik
> Gemeindeverwaltung
> Abstimmung
> Wahl
> Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
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Zusammenfassung: | A leading model of African political economy in the late 1970s and early 1980s held that African governments pursued 'antidevelopmental' policies in order to secure political quiescence from politically influential urban-based middle and working classes. Seen in this light, the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) constitute a retreat from such policies. This article analyses the politics of Ghana's Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) from 1982 to 1989 in the light of this model. It is argued that the Economic Recovery Programme (ERP)/SAP has caused a serious erosion in the PNDC's original support base (the workers, students and radical intellegentsia) and has not yet produced a viable alternative support base. In the face of growing alienation, political isolation and insecurity, the PNDC regime has relied on an array of nondemocratic and authoritarian political practices in combination with neocorporatist arrangements to gird its rule, but questions remain about the sustainability of this kind of politics in the long run. (Documentatieblad/ASC Leiden) |
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ISSN: | 0306-3631 |