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- W3204678129 abstract "In Innovating Development Strategies in Africa, Landry Signe examines processes that have led to development of institutions and public policy in sub-Saharan Africa in almost sixty years that have passed since independence. Signe uses nine West African francophone countries to explore key drivers of Africa's transformation, differences between countries, and roles of international, regional, and national actors involved. He focuses on innovations at level of processes, explored through study of four independent variables: ideas, interests, institutions, and time. He uses these variables to structure four chapters that make up main body of book, preceded by two chapters describing theoretical and methodological context of studying innovation in African economic development strategies. The final chapter summarizes key conclusions of his research and proposes new approaches to analyzing change in political science. The concept of innovation that informs this book is broader than usual definition taken by African and international actors to describe their development strategies. By this term, Signe refers not only to a change in content of development strategies, but also to the manner in which these changes in content emerge and are transformed, regardless of whether they are modest or radical (p. 2). His key interest is in how these innovations occur. He supports hypothesis that, though at a normative level some have observed an apparent continuity of development strategies, important innovations in process require attention. The book does a remarkable job of highlighting differences and similarities among countries studied and putting them into a broader context. These countries tend to be overlooked by anglophone researchers, making their presence here especially important. They can be divided into countries that entered independence with socialist-leaning economies (Benin, Burkina Faso, Congo, Mali), and those that leaned more liberal (Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Niger, Senegal, Togo). By conducting a cross-national comparison that focuses on change, Signe highlights both diversity of actors involved in creating political and economic policies and speed at which these developments have occurred. African countries are often portrayed as receiving imposed external development strategies with little choice of how to implement them. Signe highlights role that national actors have in shaping these strategies-one of unique features of his analysis. Signe positions his approach to studying development strategies in Africa beyond what he sees as two dominant analytical visions: a political-technocratic, liberal vision, which" @default.
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