In most post-colonial regimes in sub-Saharan Africa, state power
has been used to structure economic production in ways that have
tended to produce economic stagnation rather than growth. In this
1993 book, Catherine Boone examines the ways in which the exercise
of state power has inhibited economic growth, focusing on the case
of Senegal. She traces changes in the political economy of Senegal
from the heyday of colonial merchant capital in the 1930s to the
decay of the 1980s and reveals that old trading monopolies and
commercial hierarchies were preserved at the cost of reforms that
would have stimulated economic growth. Boone uses this case to
develop an argument against analyses of political-economic
development that identify state institutions and ideologies as
independent forces driving the process of economic transformation.
State power, she argues, is rooted in the material and social bases
of ruling alliances.
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