@article {69316,
	title = {The New Institutionalism and Africa},
	journal = {The Journal of African Politics},
	year = {2012},
	note = {},
	month = {Aug 1, 2012},
	publisher = {The Journal of African Politics},
	abstract = {After briefly reviewing the new institutionalism, this article uses the history of political reform in Africa to test its key tenet: that power, if properly organized, is a productive resource. It does so by exploring the relationship between changes in political institutions and changes in economic performance, both at the macro- and the micro-level. The evidence indicates that political reform (Granger) causes increases in GDP per capita in the African subset of global data. And, at the micro-level, it demonstrates that changes in national political institutions in Africa strongly relate to changes in total factor productivity in agriculture.},
	url = {http://jae.oxfordjournals.org/},
	author = {Bates, Robert H.}
}
