State Legitimacy and Development in Africa

By Pierre Englebert. 2000

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It is typically taken for granted that African economies perform poorly, but there are a small but significant number of success stories on the continent. This study explores what accounts for Africa's average stagnation, and for the wide regional variations in developmental fortunes.

Subfields: Development

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• Institutions matter, but which ones? (2005, unknown): “Most African states are low in the legitimacy scores given by Englebert (2000).”
• What accountability pressures do MPs in Africa face and how do they respond? Evidence from Ghana* (2010, background): “The current literature on political clientelism has emphasised factors like the illegitimacy of the state (e.g. Englebert 2000), a lack of credible politicians (e.g. Keefer & Vlaicu 1997), the role of political machines capable of effective monitoring (e.g. Cox & McCubbins 1993; Stokes 2005), the…”
• Revisiting the Resource Curse: Natural Disasters, the Price of Oil, and Democracy (2011, background): “…results are robust to changing the democracy threshold+ 34+ La Porta et al+ 1998+ The inclusion or noninclusion of Russia in the West is immaterial+ 35+ Englebert 2000+ 36+ Ross 2001+ 37+ Bound, Jaeger, and Baker 1995+ 38+ Cragg-Donald and first-stage F-statistics for the excluded instruments are…”
• Political institutions and developmental governance in sub-Saharan Africa (2004, background): “They would, in this sense, provide political foundations for the organisational cohesion and social embeddedness of what are sometimes called ‘developmental states ’ (Englebert 2000; Evans 1995; Mkandawire 2001).”
• African military coups d'état, 1956–2001: frequency, trends and distribution (2003, background): “…such as The Economist (13–19.5.2000) run cover stories on ‘Africa: The Hopeless Continent ’, the perilous condition of much of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is highlighted.1 Of course, any generalisation about all 48 states of SSA will always have important exceptions (Englebert 2000; Mkandawire 2001).”