The state, bureaucracy and parastatals in Tanzania: coercion, conflict and crisis

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Title:	The state, bureaucracy and parastatals in Tanzania: coercion, conflict and crisis
Author:	Stein, H.
Year:	1983
Pages:	69
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Los Angeles, CA
Publisher:	African studies association
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	bureaucracy public enterprises
Abstract:	Tanzania in the last decade or so has experienced a downward trend in almost every key industrial and agricultural indicator. This crisis is a direct result of the nature of the evolution of endogenous state institutions and their relationship to the major economic and social actors in Tanzania. The author develops a theory of the state and class relations based on the existence of a bureaucratic mode of production, characterised by a hegemonic bureaucratic class which controls the means of production through the institutions of the state. This class owns the expertise which potentially will provide the power of organisation to ensure a return on that expertise. However, an ineffective utilisation of organisation will transform the bureaucratic class into a non-productive tribute class. The non-productive use of surplus that results from this tendency is becoming increasingly prevalent.