Title : State Failure and Success in Uganda and Zimbabwe: the logic of political decay and reconstruction in Africa
Working Paper No : 78 (series 1)
Author(s) : E.A. Brett
Date : February 2006
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Abstract: This paper uses an
interdisciplinary 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.