The Primacy of Regime Survival State Fragility and Economic Destruction in Zimbabwe /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Simpson, Mark (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Hawkins, Tony (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Africa-Economic conditions.; Economic policy.; Development economics.; Economic development.; Africa-Politics and government.; International relations.; African Economics.; Economic Policy.; Development Economics.; Development Studies.; African Politics.; International Relations.

This book analyses the past and ongoing decline of Zimbabwe under the rule of ZANU-PF, with a primary focus on the period 1997 to the present. In contrast to much existing literature on post-independence Zimbabwe which has focused on the political dimensions of Zimbabwe's fragility, this resear...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Economics of State Fragility
• 3. Zimbabwe's First Decade: Building the One-Party State and Controlling the Economy
• 4. Regime Interests and the Failure of Economic Reform in the 1990s
• 5. Regime Survival and the Fast Track Land Reform Programme
• 6. Regime Survival and the Attack on the Urban Poor
• 7. Regime Survival: Poverty Creation, Mass Migration and Elite Enrichment
• 8. International Isolation and the Search for New Friends
• 9. Economic Meltdown and Elections
• 10. The Challenges of Cohabitation - 11. Protecting the ZANU-PF State: Safeguarding Extractive Political Structures
• 12 Protecting the ZANU-PF State: Safeguarding Extractive Economic Institutions
• 13. A Resurgent ZANU-PF
• 14. The Transitions That Weren't.