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Item Approaches to the Study of African Political Thought(Taamuli: A Political Science Forum, 1977) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item Contributor to Alternative Agrarian Systems and Rural Development(1979) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item Students and Revolution in South Africa(UTAFITI Journal of College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dar es Salaam, 1979) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.The author argues that although students' demonstrations do have importance to the struggle for liberation, they cannot be a crucial factor. These demonstrations, to be effective, have to be deliberately connected to the struggle of the working class. After argumenting this contention the author concludes that the Soweto revolt was not a purely student affair, and that it became effective because the working class played a very key role in the movement.Item Mistaking a Tree for the forest: Andrew Coulson's African Socialism in Practice(Taamuli: A Political Science Forum, 1980) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item Organizational Form and Control of Parastatals in Tanzania(Taylor & Francis, 1983) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Parastatal organizations have been at the center of the debate on organizations in Tanzania. No doubt this is partly due to the important place they have assumed in the economy of the country since the Arusha Declaration of 1967 and the consequent nationalizations. The immediate reason for their projection into the lime-light however, has been their performance which has been far below expectations. Consequently, central to the debate have been the attempts to account for this disturbing performance in the hope of arresting the trend. Among the factors pointed out as possible causes of bad performance are two related issues: — the organizational form of these parastatals, and financial control in these organizations.Item Trends in Civil Service Size and Income in Tanzania, 1967-1982(Taylor & Francis, 1983) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.The state bureaucracy is important in every state, but particularly so in underdeveloped countries. In the absence of a strong indigenous bourgeois class, it has been the only cohesive group with the necessary knowhow to spearhead the development effort. Tanzania has been no exception to this general trend, and consequently, the bureaucracy has occupied a central place in the discussion of socialist policies and their implementation since they were announced in 1967. Three broad issues have been at the core of the literature on the bureaucracy in Tanzania. First has been the discussion of its developmental capacity - whether it has the will and the means to put the developmental program into effect. Second, discussion has centred on the impact of socialist policies on the bureaucracy's efficiency and effectiveness; and third, there has been the major debate on whether it has transformed itself (or been transformed) into an effective class: a bureaucratic bourgeoisie.Item The Bureaucracy and Socialism in Tanzania: The Case of the Civil Service(African Review, 1983) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.The state bureaucracy has occupied a central place in discussion of the socialist policies in Tanzania since 1967 when they were announced. Several issues, contradictory in conception, have been raised about it by several writers. In almost all of thesewritings however, no distinction has been drawn between the various constituents of the bureaucracy, especially between the civil service and the bureaucracy centred in the parastatal organisations and, to a lesser extent, the party bureaucracy. This paper dissects the state bureaucracy concentrating on the civil service. The structural changes as well as the duties and responsabilities thrust on the civil service in the wake of the Arusha Declaration are first described, followed by analyses of the change in civil service size, income, effectiveness and efficiency.Item The nurture of power and torture of parastatals in Africa(In Proceedings of 13th Annual Conference of the African Studies Association, Denver, Colorado, 1987) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item The Political Economy of Parastatal Enterprise in Tanzania and Botswana(University of California, Berkeley, 1988) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item Bureaucracy and Agricultural Policy: The Case of Tanzania(1990) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item Surviving with Minimal Productivity: The Case of the National Development Corporation(1990) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item Much Ado About Nothing, The 1990 Eections in Tanzania(Taamuli: A Political Science Forum, 1991) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item Small is not always beautiful: the State enterprise sector in Botswana(The African Review, 1992) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Botswana's State enterprise sector has drawn praise for its small size (around ten in the mid-1980s), the government's prudence in resisting pressure to create State-owned enterprises, the apolitical choice of projects and organizations, and the effectiveness of public sector management. The present paper reexamines some of these claims. It looks at the dynamics of State enterprise establishment in Botswana, describes and analyses the managerial forms and capital structures of State enterprises and explores the issue of managerial competence and financial performance. It concludes that the sector's establishment was not apolitical, as some would like to believe, and that its smallness is more apparent than real. While some State enterprises are profitable, by no means all State enterprises have done well. Moreover, State enterprise success has had a lot to do with the State, which has played critical roles in enterprise establishment, structuring and operations, securing finance and protecting State enterprises from several market forces, amongst others through its financial and labour policies. State enterprises have also been deeply enmeshed in politics and political support has been critical to managerial success. Finally, expatriate managers and consultants are not an automatic guarantee of success.Item The State and Public enterprise in East Africa(Konrad Adenauer Foundation, 1992) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item To be or Not Be: The Paradoxes of African Bureaucracies in the Nineties(1992) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item State-owned Enterprises in Africa(L. Rienner Publishers, 1993) Grosh, Barbara; Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item The ideological Premises of Tanzania's 1990 Elections(Dar es Salaam University Press, 1994) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item Local Government and Local Government Elections in Africa(African Review, 1994) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item State Enterprise Control: The Case of Tanzania(Boulder, Colorado, Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc., 1994) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.Item Public Enterprise Boards in Tanzania(AJPA and IASIA, 1994) Mukandala, Rwekaza S.