POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Short, Sharp Shock, Structural Adjustment, Sub-Saharan Africa
11 Mar 2014
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Last 2 exams have been posted on mycourses. Need to tie in lectures, handelman, conferences readings. Not just a case of repeating a slide or handelman; need to tie in different things. Conference handouts can spark your memory about things to tie into the questions. ***there will be a conference related question*** (not on specific presentations, but on the themes) There"s sensitivity because as a political leader you not only generate an opposition amongst the actual opposition, but also within your own coalition. If you"re a populist, mass-based regime, those who benefited from social service expenditures wouldn"t like cutbacks. If the state has fewer resources to throw around, and they"re under international scrutiny, that may limit the ability to throw out resources to rent support, which might have been a huge part of how you consolidated power. Could do things so gradually that people don"t notice. But that doesn"t look very credible in the business community.
