Interpreting the Exceptionality of Botswana
@article{Good1992InterpretingTE,
title={Interpreting the Exceptionality of Botswana},
author={Kenneth Good},
journal={The Journal of Modern African Studies},
year={1992},
volume={30},
pages={69 - 95}
}Botswana has achieved rapid growth with stability since independence in 1966, largely through the supportive interrelations between an open market economy and a system of élite democracy, successfully blending ‘traditional’ and modern elements, and offering a range of fairly free and meaningful political choices. But growth, and the policies of a selectively interventionist state, have produced increasingly deep inequalities of property and incomes, posing problems for the stability of the…
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