POLS 3000 Lecture Notes - Moral Economy, Immanence, Larry Diamond
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Pols 3000 october 24 2013 politics of africa. A moral economy" is one that is good, fair and just. It speaks to the idea that the money you pay for something is, for example fair and reasonable rather than a strictly free market price. Something that is fair and reasonable to you can be rationalized by the participants. Corruption is bad but it is legitimatized because those who say is bad are participants of it and it is a means of survival: a coping mechanism. The logics of the solidarity network: facilitate cooperation in future. Adopting modern democratic institutions (for some this ^ democratic process is succeeding slowly) There is evidence that african political leaders are making progress. Ideally these elements should be part of a deeply entrenched and regular pattern or behavior. Posner and young: both are probably on the optimist side. Posner and young claim that africa is becoming more institutionalized.