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Stefan Leiderer et al. The political economy of transition Malawi is a country in transition. The first democratic multiparty elections only took place in 1994, after almost 30 years of authoritarian rule under Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda. Societies in political transition share a number of key features all over the world. The features are, for example, unconsolidated and young democratic institutions, administrative staff with little experience with working in democratic and legal-bureaucratic environments, high expectations of the population for material as well as legal improvements and a lack of ‘democratic culture’. Another key characteristic is the high dynamic of formal and informal bargaining for power and interests. ‘Old elites’ try to retain or transform their positions, while ‘new elites’ try to join or replace the old elites. Political conditions in transition countries are often shaped by rapidly changing coalitions, the sudden accumulation of power or the loss thereof by individuals and groups. Furthermore, in recent years academic work on institutions and path-dependency has made clear that new structures and procedures do not just replace the previous ones. As Bratton and van de Walle (1997) conclude in their study on transition processes in sub-Saharan Africa: “the institutional heritage of neopatrimonial rule has shaped regime transitions in much of Africa” (Bratton / van de Walle 1997, 269). Processes such as PRS implementation, decentralisation and the reform of PFM imply decisions about the redistribution of power, responsibilities and resources. As this study explicitly takes the political dimension of these processes into account, the theoretical background of the political economy of transition is highly relevant, although it is not the main focus. Analytical approach and preliminary categories A study on the major challenges in PFM at central and local government level for implementing the MPRSP is a study on institutional and organisational change and on the factors that inhibit this change. Based on the theoretical background provided above, it seemed to be promising to focus on actors and institutions for analysing PFM practice and its change – or the lack thereof. While actors can be individuals or groups who have the ability to act in a coherent manner, institutions can generally be defined as structures of 166 German Development Institute
Public Financial Management for PRSP Implementation in Malawi expectation that determine what in a given society is regarded as appropriate social action and decision-making (Hasse / Krücken 1999, 7). 49 In order to understand and explain how actors act and how institutions enable and restrict them in their social action, the research team identified several preliminary categories as particularly promising for analysis. Before taking up with field work in Malawi these were following ones: capacity (human, technical), resources (financial, material), interests (political, material), formal institutions and procedures (overlap, lack of coordination), information flows, political commitment, informal institutions (rules, actors, etc.). However, as the genuine development of categories from the data is a constitutive element of the chosen qualitative research style, these categories only provided some guidance without structuring the process of analysis too strongly. Most categories identified turned out to be useful for analysing the data, however, not always in the way initially thought of. Nevertheless, new categories were also developed, based on the data. 49 This definition includes organisations that have significant norm-setting power but primarily focuses on formal as well as informal rules and expectations. German Development Institute 167
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