Institutions and Reform in Africa The Public Choice Perspective

Subjects:

• Economics » Developmental Economics
• Political Science » Comparative Politics
• Economics » Economic Policy
• Multicultural Studies » African Studies

Awards:

• 1998 Cecil B. Currey Book Length Publications Award
  Association of Third World Studies

Reviews:

• This book makes an important contribution to constitutional economics in Africa....His analysis is solid and exhaustive, his argument persuasive, and his application of public choice both creative and innovative.
  —Journal of Third World Studies
• ...the work neatly synthesizes the core of public choice thinking and applies it to a selection of African governance problems. Prof. Mbaku is to be applauded for confronting the mountain of general public choice literature, the intractable difficulties of contempory Africa, and the shortage of major works bringing these two together. Summaries of key public choice insights provide the student and the specialist with readable overviews and ample bibliographic entries.
  —Public Choice

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Gordon Tullock
• General Introduction
• The African Economies
• Changing Global Trade Patterns and Economic Dependence in Africa
• Public Choice and African Institutions
• Origin of Inefficient Constitutional Rules
• Political Instability in Africa
• Bureaucratic and Political Corruption
• Post Constitutional Opportunism in Africa
• The Present Reform Movement in Africa
• Public Choice and Institutional Reform
• Democratization Strategies for Africa
• Preparing Africa for the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from Public Choice
• Conclusions: Looking Forward to the Twenty-First Century
• Bibliography
• Index