Working Paper No.78
State Failure and Success in Uganda and Zimbabwe: the logic
of political decay and reconstruction in Africa
E.A. Brett
Crisis States Research Centre, LSE
February 2006
This paper uses an interdisclipinary approach to the
post-colonial history of Uganda and Zimbabwe and shows that the way in which
regimes responded to contradictory political and economic demands explain the
processes that led to state failure or consolidation. It provides a review
of the claims of the competing theories used to explain these processes and
shows that they all explain some, but not all, of the critical changes that
occurred. The outcome of interventionist or neo-liberal policies depended on
contextual circumstances and produced changes in the social, economic and
political capital in each country that will determine the success or failure of
future policies.
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