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| Title: | Administration Triumphs over Politics: The Transformation of the Tanzanian State |
| Author: | Costello, Matthew J. |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Periodical: | African Studies Review |
| Volume: | 39 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Period: | April |
| Pages: | 123-148 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Tanzania |
| Subjects: | administrative reform civil service institutional change Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/524672 |
| Abstract: | Since the 1980s, the Tanzanian State has been undergoing a transformation involving both the relations of power among the central organs of the State and the social role that the State plays in Tanzanian society. The dominance of the ruling party (CCM, Chama Cha Mapinduzi) has eroded. Administration has triumphed over politics, and the State is coming increasingly under the sway of an administrative ethos. There is little indication that opening up politics through multiparty elections will counter this trend. To explore the Tanzanian transformation, this paper first discusses the relation between party and administration in postcolonial Tanzania, which was characterized by various conflicts. This is illustrated by a comparison of administrative attitudes in two central agencies: the National Development Corporation (NDC), a public enterprise, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (Kilimo), where data were collected during 1989-1990. Finally, the effects of structural adjustment programmes and of the role of international actors on both administrative perceptions and the changing authority relations within the State are examined. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
