https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-do-you-build-effective-states-in-africa/ How active citizens and effective states can change the world Sat, 15 Jul 2017 03:27:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-do-you-build-effective-states-in-africa/#comment-223 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:37:05 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=163#comment-223 Look too at Henning Melber’s edited book on the Limits to Liberation in Southern Africa (or some such title) – which reflects on the consequences for policy today of the different routes to power of different governments in the region.

]]> https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-do-you-build-effective-states-in-africa/#comment-222 Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:04:31 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=163#comment-222 Hi Chris, El Salvador was me – Matthew doesn’t do Central America, and I guess I stand corrected. What you got in El Salvador is a lasting and apparently solid peace (although accompanied by a crime wave), but not, I agree, ‘transformation’.

]]> https://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/how-do-you-build-effective-states-in-africa/#comment-221 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:45:34 +0000 http://www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/?p=163#comment-221 I appreciate this thoughtful post on leadership in Africa, this is one of the central issues on the continent. I think expanding education and the middle class will help increase demand for good leadership and accountable government, and move people away from the image of a paternalistic state cited in the Uganda poll you mention. One question: do you and Matthew Lockwood really think that El Salvador has seen a major transformation since the war? I do believe political space has increased from nothing to something for the opposition but my sense is that the country is run by many of the same people with the same effect. What do you and others think?

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