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Between Militarism and Technocratic Governance. State Formation in Contemporary Uganda (Paperback)
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State-civil society relations in Africa have during recent decades
been transformed in the context of economic liberalisation and
state reform. This study explores state-civil society relations in
contemporary Uganda, from 1986 to the present, in order to
illustrate and explain the scope for and capacity of different
social forces to create access to and democratise the state. The
study interrogates state-civil society relations under the
incumbent National Resistance Movement government as these are
expressed through forms of interest representation and conflict
regulation in different political arenas. It analyses this problem
through an empirical study of the health sector at both national
and local levels. Changes in the health regime - the rules and
practices that regulate health politics - are analysed by a
historical reconstruction of how different health regimes evolved
from demands from social forces on the colonial and post-colonial
state, in relation to broader patterns of political change. The
ruling political coalition from 1986 has promoted a model for
capitalist development based on donor-driven economic growth,
institutional reform and political monopoly - what is referred to
in the study as technocratic governance. Throughout, however, the
technocratic tendency has been shaped in relation to the political
economy of militarism as a more openly repressive form of
authoritarian rule. The study argues that limits to democratisation
of state society relations within the health sector and of Ugandan
politics at large are best explained by relations of domination in
society, within the state and among external political forces. The
main conclusion is that democratisation of the state has been
resisted by ruling groups, and therefore restricted
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