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The Irrelevance of Ideology in the Public Sector: A Comparison of Kenya and Tanzania

In: The State, Technology and Industrialization in Africa

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  • Jeffrey James

    (Tilburg University)

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Chapter 1 drew attention to the similarity in the technological behaviour of public enterprises in the industrial sector of various African countries. This observation is striking because it does not conform to what one might have expected on the basis of the highly disparate development strategies that were adopted in countries such as Kenya and Tanzania. One might have expected instead that the capitalistic orientation of the former and the (African) socialism espoused in the latter would have produced a correspondingly diverse pattern of technological behaviour on the part of the public enterprises concerned. For, to the extent that these enterprises can be considered as being essentially an extension, or ‘creature* of the state, their technological behaviour ought presumably to reflect the divergent goals of the countries they represent.

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  • Jeffrey James, 1995. "The Irrelevance of Ideology in the Public Sector: A Comparison of Kenya and Tanzania," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The State, Technology and Industrialization in Africa, chapter 3, pages 47-84, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37719-6_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230377196_4
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