Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal

1930–1985

By:

Catherine Boone

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

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In most post-colonial regimes in sub-Saharan Africa, state power has been used to structure economic production in ways that have tended to produce economic stagnation rather than growth. In this 1993 book, Catherine Boone examines the ways in which the exercise of state power has inhibited economic growth, focusing on the case of Senegal. She traces changes in the political economy of Senegal from the heyday of colonial merchant capital in the 1930s to the decay of the 1980s and reveals that old trading monopolies and commercial hierarchies were preserved at the cost of reforms that would have stimulated economic growth. Boone uses this case to develop an argument against analyses of political-economic development that identify state institutions and ideologies as independent forces driving the process of economic transformation. State power, she argues, is rooted in the material and social bases of ruling alliances.

Release date Australia

November 2nd, 2006

Author

Catherine Boone

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

23 Tables, unspecified; 4 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

320

Series

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Dimensions

152x230x18

ISBN-13

9780521030397

Product ID

2356238

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