POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stefan Wolff, Failed State, Process State
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Lecture notes: pol301 the rise and decline of the african state. Date: july 6, 2017 post-colonial states were challenged in transforming themselves into viable and functional states. Existing elites used economic power to preserve political power era, for the purpose of fulfilling colonial goals, have powerfully conditioned present: 2. From development crisis to state failure: crises of development led to the downfall of regimes and the spread of political decay schraeder argues that economic crisis brings up other political problems, schraeder(cid:495)s five resulting crises, 1. Crisis of identity: failure to create a common national outlook among ethnically, linguistically, and religiously diverse peoples: 2. Crisis of legitimacy: lack of national consensus on the legitimate exercise of authority: 3. Crisis of participation: rising public demands for inclusion in exclusive political decision-making processes: 4. Crisis of distribution: lack of ability to balance public demands for goods and services with government responsibility to provide public goods such as economic growth: 5.
