Good and Bad Governance

Question 1

Control Regimes

Answer 1

A combination of policies which results in a state with a closed economy, distortion of key macroeconomic prices, and the promotion and regulation of industries, which all led to a decrease in economic growth

Question 2

obstacles to economic policy reforms in Africa

Answer 2

1. material interests of state elites
2. ideological constraints
3. low and declining state capacity
   negative synergies are produced among the factors

Question 3

neopatrimonialism

Answer 3

style of rule that emerged and combined authoritarian legacy of colonial rule and village traditions of patrimonialism

Question 4

four characteristics of neopatrimonial regimes

Answer 4

1. clientelism (exchange of goods and services to maintain political support)
2. access to state resources (private and public realms blurred, however)
3. centralization of power (centered around the capital city and the president)
4. Hybrid regimes (informal institutions characterized by the above coexisting with formal institutions)

Question 5

state capacity

Answer 5

negative synergy between state capacity and neopatrimonialism (low capacity helps with corruption and rent-seeking practices).

More college grads, but brain drain. Not paid enough, hiring not based on merit. Results in the state not being able to perform basic / routine services and tasks

Question 6

ideological context

Answer 6

new liberal orthodoxy–people who tried to explain what Africa was doing wrong (structural adjustment programs). their findings boil down to:

1. fiscal discipline (live within your means, don’t go into debt unless necessary)
2. outward orientation (stop using trade protectionist policies)
3. basic reliance on markets (limit govt. intervention!)