Explains the strategies political parties use to extract money from the state and how these strategies shape government performance.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The politics of extraction; 2. Extraction problems and party solutions; 3. Politics and party institutions in Benin and Ghana; 4. Extraction strategies in Benin and Ghana; 5. Staffing the state for extraction; 6. Extraction and the executive; 7. Extraction and the bureaucracy; 8. Reflections on parties, extraction, and state performance.