Common sense and economic theory suggest large revenues from natural resource projects
should generate economic progress and development. Yet much evidence argues the …

Spectacular economic growth in China suggests the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
has somehow gotten it right. A key hypothesis in both economics and political science is that …

Political violence remains a pervasive feature of electoral dynamics in many countries in
Sub-Saharan Africa, even where multiparty elections have become the dominant mode of …

The article provides a critical discussion of the literature on" patrimonialism" and"
neopatrimonialism" as far as the use in Development Studies in general or African Studies in …

This survey critically examines the development studies literature dealing with the
connections between social structure, politics and the emergence or development of …

Upon taking power in August 1985, General Ibrahim Babangida promised a decisive course
of economic and political change for Nigeria. Alongside a phased transition to democratic …

" Growing Apart is an important and distinguished contribution to the literature on the
political economy of development. Indonesia and Nigeria have long presented one of the …

The Advance of African Capital provides the most detailed and extensive account of medium-
and large-scale African business yet published. Up-to-date and comprehensive, it examines …

During a decade-long commodities boom, countries with newly discovered or expanding
hydrocarbon and/or mineral resources have attracted tens of billions of US dollars in foreign …

As the news of President Moussa Traoré's overthrow spread through Mali in March 1991,
large crowds of people poured into the streets of Bamako, Segu, Kati, and other towns to …