post-washington governance? emerging unorthodoxies prof. graham harrison department of politics...
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Post-Washington governance? Emerging unorthodoxies
Prof. Graham HarrisonDepartment of Politics
University of Sheffield, [email protected]
SOAS Governance for Development WorkshopAddis Ababa
26-31 March 2012
Aims of the presentationTo explore the room to manoeuvre in global political economy
To identify unorthodox policy innovation
To open up potential new political trends in governance
The orthodoxyLiberalisation
PRSP
Governance states
Emerging tensions Global economic crisis
China, India and others
Enduring and resurgent nationalisms
Intellectual debates
High growth rates, weak poverty response, evidence of worsening inequality
Resurgent modernisation thinking
Emerging unorthodoxies Within PRSP: Uganda’s UPE, strategic privatisation, Tanzania and water
privatisation
Acts of rebellion: Mali banned rice imports, Zambia bans GM maize imports, Malawi introduces agrarian crop price support and grain stock strategy, Zambia’s cash transfer scheme, Mozambique and sugar
State-capital relations: holding companies, party companies, networks, conglomerates
The politics of unorthodoxy Developmentalism: transformative production, medium-term, socially-
minded?
Nationalism
Patrimonialism: centralised, systematic, regulatory, medium-term
International context: shifting balances of power: ‘5+ percenters’ pluralised global political economy
Prospects ‘Getting the production right’ (Deborah Brautigam)
Mechanisms though which policies become ideas (Manuela Moschella)
‘Pockets of efficiency’?
‘Southern consensus’ (Charles Gore)? Post-neoliberal Latin America? China? India?
Resource sovereignty
Development as legitimacy… or survival