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Sequences of Change and the Political Economy of Public Corporations: Kenya

HERE IS A WIDESPREAD ASSESSMENT throughout Africa and Asia that the promotion of economic growth is too important for the people to leave in the hands of the private sector. Yet, economic development has proved an elusive task for the regular units of the public bureaucracy alone. An increasingly common response to this dilemma is to establish public enterprises with mandates to operate as commercial organizations while at the same time serving the demands of the nation as expressed by its political leaders. Our concern here is with the response of public corporations to fundamental changes in the nature of the political elite and the direction of public policy. Public corporations are quasi-autonomous agencies, free from civil service regulations, detailed public treasury procedures, or ministerial supervision. Public enterprises are not, however, insulated from the dynamics of their political environment. They are an integral part of the political process.