Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa: Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana: By Rachel Sigman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 332 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781009262835.

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The book review discusses Rachel Sigman's work on political extraction in Africa, focusing on Benin and Ghana. Sigman's analysis distinguishes between collusive and coercive extraction methods based on party institutionalization levels. She uses quantitative data to support her argument, highlighting the impact of extraction processes on state effectiveness. The review raises concerns about the analysis of party structures and their effects, as well as the limited discussion of party institutional reproduction and endogeneity concerns. [Extracted from the article]

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