State Building in the Developing World: Africa
May 7-8, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
Introductory Remarks
Deborah Yashar
Jeremy Seekings
Session I: The Developmental State in South Africa
Jeremy Seekings, Chair
Omano Edigheji: Constructing a Democratic Developmental State in South Africa: Potentials and Challenges
Mike Morris: Industrial Policy Politics and State Capacity Building
Session II: Historical and Political Foundations of State Capacity in South Africa
Jeremy Seekings, Chair
Deborah Posel: The Apartheid Project, 1948--1970
Robert Mattes: State Building in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Institutionalization and Institutional Choice
Session III: The Determinants of State Capacity
Deborah Yashar, Chair
Peter Lewis: Democratization, the State, and Civil Society
Abdul Raufu Mustapha: Variations in Peace and State Building in Africa: Implications for State Capacity
Thandika Mkandawire: On Tax Efforts and Colonial Heritage in Africa
Session IV: Modes of State Capacity
Niraja Gopal Jayal, Chair
Antoinette Handley: State Capacity in Southern Africa's Mining Economies: Elites and Institution-Building in Botswana, Zambia, and South Africa
Rachel Beatty Reidl: State Expansion and Regime Consolidation in Africa: Multi-level Strategies
Ato Kwame Onoma: Some Critical Comments on the Project of State Building
Closing Remarks
Mike Bratton
Thandika Mkandawire
Atul Kohli