TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bebbington, Anthony
AU  - Abdulai, Abdul-Gafaru
AU  - Humphreys Bebbington, Denise
AU  - Hinfelaar, Marja
AU  - Sanborn, Cynthia
AB  - Proposals for more effective natural resource governance emphasize the importance of institutions and governance, but say less about the political conditions under which institutional change occurs. This book synthesizes findings regarding the political drivers of institutional change in extractive industry governance. The authors analyse resource governance from the late nineteenth century to the present in Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia. They focus on the ways in which resource governance and national political settlements interact. Special attention is paid to the nature of elite politics, the emergence of new political actors, forms of political contention, changing ideas regarding natural resources and development, the geography of natural resource deposits, and the influence of the transnational political economy of global commodity production. National elites and subnational actors are in continuous contention over extractive industry governance. Resource rents are used by elites to manage this contention and incorporate actors into governing coalitions and overall political settlements. Periodically, new resource frontiers are opened, and new political actors emerge with the power to redefine how extractive industries are governed and used as instruments for development. Colonial and post-colonial histories of resource extraction continue to give political valence to ideas of resource nationalism that mobilize actors who challenge existing institutional arrangements. The book is innovative in its focus on the political longue durée, and the use of in-depth, comparative, country-level analysis in Africa and Latin America, to build a theoretical argument that accounts for both similarity and divergence between these regions.
DO  - 10.1093/oso/9780198820932.001.0001
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1000322
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1076724227
KW  - mining
KW  - extractive industry
KW  - natural resource governance
KW  - political settlements
KW  - Bolivia
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Peru
KW  - Zambia
KW  - inclusive development
KW  - Hydrocarbon
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b6a5051d-d0e1-4bb5-8956-27a07885e0df/governingextractive.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29612
PB  - Oxford University Press
PP  - Oxford, UK
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9780198820932
TI  - Governing Extractive Industries : Politics, Histories, Ideas
ER  - 
