The Socialist State and the Peasantry

Michael Drinkwater

Chapter 3 in The State and Agrarian Change in Zimbabwe’s Communal Areas, 1991, pp 78-112 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The question that Griffin addresses — why do governments do what they do? — is the complex essense of policy analysis. To answer it requires, at the empirical level, an identification of how government agents actually act, as opposed to how they say they act. To explain these actions, the ideological justifications governments provide for their policy actions then need to be separated from the ‘real’ (and possibly partly unconscious) motives that operate at different levels of the polity and bureaucracy. Making a distinction between ‘levels’ is a reminder that governments are not undifferentiated entities. Conflicts over policy directions between the political leadership and government agencies, and between and within government agencies, occur because of people’s different interests, perceptions and beliefs.

Keywords: Communal Area; Land Reform; District Council; Policy Practice; National Development Planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11780-2_3

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