Neo-liberalism and the state: lessons from the Tanzania coffee industry
Abstract
Many scholars continue to link neo-liberalism with minimalist state dimensions such as limited regulation, state atrophy, and dispersed political and economic power. This article challenges this position by analyzing neo-liberal state formation in the Tanzanian coffee sector through the political logic of neoliberalization. It argues that the neo-liberal state is correlated with government intervention, expansion, and concentrated political and economic power. Neoliberal crises expose the state ' s contradictory role as a facilitator and obstacle to capitalist development, and it constitutes a critical transition point for the state and re-organization of elite interests.
Keywords: Tanzania coffee market, neo-liberalism, the state, political economy of reform, African political economy.
Murrell L. Brooks,Assistant Professor, Virginia Wesleyan University E-mail: mbrooks@vwu.edu
Ambrose T. Kessy, Senior Lecturer, University of Dar es Salaam E-mail: akessy09@udsm.ac.tz
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