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Title: | The Political Economy of an African Public Enterprise: A Longitudinal Case Study of the Administrative and Economic Operations of the Sierra Leone Port Organization |
Author: | Luke, David F. |
Year: | 1984 |
Periodical: | Public Administration and Development |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | April-June |
Pages: | 171-186 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sierra Leone |
Subjects: | ports public enterprises Development and Technology Economics and Trade Politics and Government |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1002/pad.4230040206 |
Abstract: | Whatever the economic rationale of public sector organisations, they do not exist and operate in a social and political vacuum. This paper argues that they are typically an integral part of a patron clientelist political and economic system on which the foundations of government sometimes depend. The consequences this has for the economic performance of public sector organisations are now widely recognised in the growing literature on African public enterprise. Contributions to the discussion, however, have tended to be dominated by economists and public administration specialists who have generally adopted a technocratic problem solution approach, and failed to situate adequately the problem of performance in its proper (political) context This paper provides a case study which examines the administrative and economic operations of the Sierra Leone Port Organization in the colonial and post-colonial states and argues that problems of performance of African public sector organisations require political as well as technocratic solutions. Notes, ref. |