| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20092 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20092 |
| Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective | |
| Daron Acemoglu; Isaías N. Chaves; Philip Osafo-Kwaako; James A. Robinson | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-05-01 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | A fundamental problem for economic development is that most poor countries have 'weak state' which are incapable or unwilling to provide basic public goods such as law enforcement, order, education and infrastructure. In Africa this is often attributed to the persistence of 'indirect rule' from the colonial period. In this paper we discuss the ways in which a state constructed on the basis of indirect rule is weak and the mechanisms via which this has persisted since independence in Sierra Leone. We also present a hypothesis as to why the extent to which indirect rule has persisted varies greatly within Africa, linking it to the presence or the absence of large centralized pre-colonial polities within modern countries. Countries which had such a polity, such as Ghana and Uganda, tended to abolish indirect rule since it excessively empowered traditional rulers at the expense of post-colonial elites. Our argument provides a new mechanism which can explain the positive correlation between pre-colonial political centralization and modern public goods and development outcomes. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Public Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20092 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577765 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Daron Acemoglu,Isaías N. Chaves,Philip Osafo-Kwaako,et al. Indirect Rule and State Weakness in Africa: Sierra Leone in Comparative Perspective. 2014. |
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