DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES
FIRST SEMESTER, 2015/2016
POLI 441: The Political Economy of Africa’s Development since
Independence
Course Outline and Reading List
Lecturers: Dr. S. M.
Alidu/Mr. K. Jonah
Contact: smalidu@ug.edu.gh; kwesijonah@gmail.com
Time and Venue: Mondays
9:30 – 11:20 (Group A) (JQB 23)
Wednesdays 11:30-13:20 (Group
B) (JQB 23)
This course introduces
students to the interaction between politics and economics and its implication
for Africa’s development. It will examine both domestic and international
forces that influence Africa’s development since independence, the continent’s
response to these developmental challenges and the contending theories that
shaped those responses. It is expected that students will be able to identify
and discuss the different theories that underpin the International Political
Economy and apply them to the various developmental challenges of Africa and
other parts of the world in similar circumstances.
TOPICS:
Development Strategy in
Historical Perspectives
- Chang, H.-J. (2005) Kicking
Away the Ladder: Developing Strategy in Historical Perspective,
London: Anthem Press (Chapter 1, “Introduction: How did the Rich Countries
Really Rich?,” pp. 1 – 9)
- Wade, R. H. (2003) Governing
the Market: Economic Theory and the role of Government in East Asia’s
Industrialization, Princeton: Princeton University Press
(“Introduction”)
- Bardhan, P. (1993) “Symposium
on Democracy and Development” Journal of Economic Perspectives,
Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 45-49
- Nye, J. (1991) “The Myth of
Free-Trade Britain and Fortress France: Tariffs and Trade in the
Nineteenth Century” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 53,
No.1, pp. 23-46
The Political Economy
Framework
- DfID (2009) Political Economy
Analysis: How to Note. A DfID Practice Paper, July
- Hickey, S. (2007)
Conceptualizing the Politics of Social Protection in Africa. BWPI Working
Paper 4, October
- Whitfield, L. (2011)
Competitive Clientelism, Easy Financing and Weak Capitalist: the
Contemporary Political Settlements in Ghana. DIIS Working Paper 27
Theoretical Approaches
and Contending Perspectives in IPE
- Ravenhill, J. (ed) (2005) Global
Political Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (Part One, pp. 3 –
47)
- O’Brien, R. and Williams, M.
(2004) Global Political Economy: Evolution and Dynamics, New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, (Chp. 1, Understanding the Global Political
Economy, pp. 11 – 36)
- Jackson, R. and Sorensen,
G. (2003) Introduction to International Relations Theories and
Approaches, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Chp. 6, International
Political Economy Theories (IPE): Classical Theories, pp. 175 – 193;
Chp. 8, International Political Economy: Contemporary Debates).
- Oatley, T. (2008) International
Political Economy: Interests and Institutions in the Global Economy,
Third Edition, New York: Pearson Education, Inc. (Chp. 1: International
Political Economy, pp. 2 – 21)
Aid and Africa’s
Development
- Dambisa, M. (2009) Dead
Aid: Why Aid is not Working and How there is a Better Way for Africa.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (Part I: The World of Aid, pp. 3 –
68)
- World Bank (2000) Can
Africa Claim the 21st Century? Washington DC:
World Bank (Chp. 8: “Reducing Aid Dependence and Debt and Strengthening
Partnerships”, pp. 235 – 255)
- World Bank (2002) A
Case for Aid: Building a Consensus for Development Assistance, Washington
DC: World Bank (Part II: Nicholas Stern “Making the Case for Aid”
pp. 15 – 24)
- Neumayer, E. (2003) The Pattern
of Aid Giving: the Impact of Good Governance on Development Assistance,
London: Routledge
- Arslanalp, Serkan and Peter Blair Henry (2004) “Helping
the Poor Help Themselves: Debt Relief or Aid?”, NBER Working Paper N0.
10230, January
Globalization and
Africa’s Development
- Wolf, M. (2004) Why Globalization Works,
New Haven: Yale University Press (Chp. 2, What Liberal Globalization
Means, pp. 13 – 22; Chp.7, Globalization in the Long Run, pp. 96 –
105)
- Stiglitz, J. E. (2002) Globalization
and its Discontents, New York: W.W. Norton and Company (Chp. 9, The Way
Ahead, pp. 214 – 252)
- Wade, R. (2005) “Globalization,
Poverty and Inequality” in Ravenhill, J. (ed) Global
Political Economy, Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Boafo-Arthur, K. (2003)
“Tackling Africa’s Developmental Dilemmas: Is Globalization the Answer?” Journal
of Third World Studies, Vol. XX, No. 1, Spring, pp. 27 – 54
Responses to Africa’s
Economic Quandary
- Callaghy, T.M. and Ravenhill,
J. (eds.) (1993) Hemmed In: Responses to Africa’s Economic
Decline, New York: Columbia University Press (Introduction “Vision,
Politics and Structure: Afro-Optimism, Afro-Pessimism, or Reality”)
- Chang, H. (2005) Kicking
Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective,
London: Anthem Press (Chp. 3, Institutions and Economic Development: “Good
Governance” in Historical Perspective, pp. 69 – 110)
- Sen, A. (1999) Development
as Freedom, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (Chp. 1, The Perspective
of Freedom, pp. 13 – 34; Chp. 2, The Ends and Means of Development,
pp. 35 – 53)
- The New Partnership for
Africa’s Development (NEPAD) (www.nepad.org.)
- The Millennium Declaration and
the Millennium Development Goals (www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/mdgoverview.html)
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