Cover
Half-title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1 The Politics of Extraction
1.1 The Concept of Political Extraction
1.2 The Argument in Brief
1.3 Alternative Explanations
1.4 Research Approach
1.5 Contributions
1.6 Organization of the Book
2 A Theory of Extraction
2.1 Political Financing in Africa: What We Know
2.2 Easy Extraction?
2.3 Extraction Problems and Party Solutions
2.4 Strategies of Extraction: Collusive and Coercive

2.5 Extraction and State Politicization
2.6 Conclusion
3 Politics and Party Institutions in Benin and Ghana
3.1 Electoral Competition and the Extraction Environment
3.2 Party Institution Divergence
3.3 Most-Similar Cases?
3.4 Conclusion
4 Extraction Strategies in Benin and Ghana
4.1 Collusive Extraction in Ghana
4.2 Coercive Extraction in Benin
4.3 Analyzing Extraction in Survey Results
4.4 Conclusion
5 Staffing the State for Extraction
5.1 The Politicization of State Staffing
5.2 Politicized Executive Staffing

5.3 Extraction and Public Service Staffing
5.4 Conclusion
6 Extraction and the Executive
6.1 Extraction and Executive Performance
6.2 Comparing Executive Stability in Benin and Ghana
6.3 Guarding Extraction: Executive Instability in Benin
6.4 Stability and Cohesion Among Internal Party Divisions in Ghana
6.5 Downstream Impacts: How Bureaucrats Perceive the Executive
6.6 Conclusion
7 Extraction and the Bureaucracy
7.1 Extraction Politics and Bureaucratic Performance
7.2 Extraction, Autonomy, and Political Interference
7.3 Extraction and Resource (In)Sufficiency

7.4 Extraction and Personnel Motivation
7.5 Conclusion
8 Reflections on Parties, Extraction, and State PPerformance
8.1 Beyond Benin and Ghana
8.2 Rethinking Governance through the Lens of Party Institutions
8.3 Money, Parties, and Politics: The Present and Future of Democratic States in Africa
Appendix A Surveys of Bureaucrats
Appendix B Investigating Bias Using Survey Weights
Appendix C Measuring Politicization of Minister Appointments
Appendix D Resource Diversion and Politicized Hiring
Appendix E Variables Used in Chapter 7 Regressions

Appendix F Indicators of Public Service Motivation
Appendix G Extraction and Personnel Motivation Supplemental Tests
Bibliography
Index