The state, interest groups and structural adjustment in Zimbabwe

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Zimbabwe is currently undergoing structural adjustment. Despite 25 years of protection, the manufacturing sector has lobbied for reform. Agriculture is divided between commercial farmers, who favour economic liberalisation, and small‐scale farmers, who do not. The fact that pressure for policy change was exerted by key interest groups contrasts with a large body of theory that emphasises the need for state autonomy if economic liberalisation is to take place. An inductive approach to interest groups' changing definitions of self‐interest and an emphasis on political process and institutions is necessary in order to understand societal bases of support and resistance to economic reform in Zimbabwe.

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