Problem złych rządów jako jeden z czynników wpływających na dysfunkcyjność państw w Afryce Subsaharyjskiej

• Authors: Kłosowicz Robert

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The problem of bad governance as one of the factor unfluencing state dysfunctionality in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Bad governance can very quickly ruin the economic situation of the whole country. However, in the conditions of the Western world, even though they can cause a lot of damage, more or less developed administrative apparatus is able to minimize the effects of bad decisions, and the society has a chance to rebuff the rulers in the next elections. In so-called dysfunctional states bad governance can damage an already weak country’s economy. In the reality of Sub-Saharan Africa we can divide the countries engulfed by a serious state dysfunctionality those which were already dysfunctional at the moment of their creation and those that in the period of gaining independence in the sixties of the 20th century were on the right track to build an efficient state. The first group includes: Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo. The second consists of the countries which, as for the conditions of the Sub-Saharan Africa, coped quite well at the beginning of an independent statehood, and the infrastructure and administration left by the colonizers were in a relatively good shape. In this group we can place: Kenya and Zimbabwe. Nevertheless, among dysfunctional states the majority are ones which never step off this dysfunctionality. These are the countries in which bad governance is not only a bad president or a team of ministers, but also the entire state machinery – a corrupted, inefficient, and unprepared to act multitude of lower officials, as well the lack of the society’s thinking in the categories of state (which is not surprising in the society with tribal and clannish nature).

Keywords

PL

państwa dysfunkcyjne; upadek państwowości; państwo; Afryka Subsaharyjska; przywództwo

EN

dysfunctional states; state fall; state; Sub-Saharan Africa; leadership

• Publisher: Instytut Nauk Politycznych, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Forum Politologiczne
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 16 - Konteksty bezpieczeństwa w Afryce. Problemy globalne, sektorowe, regionalne, lokalne
• Pages: 95-116

Contributors

author

Kłosowicz Robert

• Wydział Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego

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