The Politics of African Industrial Policy: A Comparative Perspective

Lindsay Whitfield · Ole Therkildsen · Lars Buur · Anne Mette Kjær

jul 2015 · Cambridge University Press

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This book engages in the debate on growth versus economic transformation and the importance of industrial policy, presenting a comprehensive framework for explaining the politics of industrial policy. Using comparative research to theorize about the politics of industrial policy in countries in the early stages of capitalist transformation that also experience the pressures of elections due to democratization, this book provides four in-depth African country studies that illustrate the challenges to economic transformation and the politics of implementing industrial policies.

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Lindsay Whitfield is Associate Professor in Global Studies and Development Studies in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Ole Therkildsen is Senior Researcher Emeritus at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Lars Buur is Associate Professor in Global Studies and Development Studies in the Department of Society and Globalisation at Roskilde University, Denmark and Affiliated Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Anne Mette Kjær is Associate Professor in Political Science and Government in the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark.