Building a Democratic Developmental State in Post-Colonial Africa:

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" Building a Democratic Developmental State in Post-Colonial Africa: "
Majuta Judas Mamogale

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1083584
Doc. No	:	LA127213
Call No	:	‭10.1163/1821889X-12340008‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Majuta Judas Mamogale
Title & Author	:	Building a Democratic Developmental State in Post-Colonial Africa: [Article] : South Africa at the Glance\ Majuta Judas Mamogale
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	The African Review
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	47/1
Page No	:	175–208
Abstract	:	Failures of neo-liberalism in Africa through Structural Adjustment Program in the 1980s and 1990s compelled many post-colonial African states to seek alternative growth models to transform and grow their economies. Inspired by the economic success of Asian region, South Africa seeks to replicate the Asian developmental model to transform and industrialise its economy. Reviewing only the literature, the paper found that despite displaying so many similarities with East and South Asian developmental states, the rhetoric for the replication of the Asian developmental state model in South Africa works like a pendulum thus adopting a topsy-turvy approach. The notion of a developmental state is elevated through policy pronouncement and government commitments through the medium term and long-term strategic frameworks for the country. Despite displaying so many similarities with Asian developmental states, affixing the label of a developmental state onto the country by South Africans themselves is not going to make it one. Failures of neo-liberalism in Africa through Structural Adjustment Program in the 1980s and 1990s compelled many post-colonial African states to seek alternative growth models to transform and grow their economies. Inspired by the economic success of Asian region, South Africa seeks to replicate the Asian developmental model to transform and industrialise its economy. Reviewing only the literature, the paper found that despite displaying so many similarities with East and South Asian developmental states, the rhetoric for the replication of the Asian developmental state model in South Africa works like a pendulum thus adopting a topsy-turvy approach. The notion of a developmental state is elevated through policy pronouncement and government commitments through the medium term and long-term strategic frameworks for the country. Despite displaying so many similarities with Asian developmental states, affixing the label of a developmental state onto the country by South Africans themselves is not going to make it one.
Descriptor	:	democracy
Descriptor	:	developmental state
Descriptor	:	industrialisation
Descriptor	:	neo-liberalism
Descriptor	:	post-colonialism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/1821889X-12340008‬