AFRI 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Monthly Active Users, Ethnocentrism, Only Time
10 Feb 2015
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January 6, 2015: course introduction and overview january 8: africa background article: charles k. Rowley, political culture and economic performance in sub-saharan africa, european journal of political. Economy, volume 16, issue 1, march 2000, pages 133 158. http://www. sciencedirect. com. proxy. library. carleton. ca/science/article/pii/s0176268099000518# This paper introduces the concepts of the stationary and the roving bandit to provide a political economic foundation for exploring why many such countries perform now less well than was the case under colonial governance. The paper modifies the public choice models of spatial voting, rent seeking and rent extraction to take account of political institutions in sub-saharan africa. On this basis, it explains why many such countries rapidly collapsed into one party states and how the big men"" of africa pillage their countries in pursuit of private gain. Nigeria, kenya and the democratic republic of congo provide detailed institutional insights into the nature of this rapid post-colonial descent into kleptocracy. q 2000 elsevier science b. v. all rights reserved.
