Sam Hickey is Professor of Politics and Development at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. As Research Director of the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) research centre (2011-2020), he worked with many colleagues on the links between politics and development, with particular reference to state capacity, natural resource governance, social protection, education, and gender equity. ESID's multiple open access books and papers on these topics are available at www.effective-states.org. He is currently Deputy CEO for the African Cities Research Consortium at the University of Manchester and President of the Development Studies Association.

• Merilee Grindle: Preface Part I: Introduction 1: Sam Hickey and Kate Pruce: PoEs and the politics of state-building and development in Africa 2: Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan: Reconceptualising the politics of PoEs: A power domains approach Part II: Case Studies 3: Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai: Political settlement dynamics and the emergence and decline of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Ghana 4: Matthew Tyce: 'Holding against the tide': The varying fortunes of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Kenya 5: Marja Hinfelaar and Caesar Cheelo: State capacity building in Zambia amidst shifting political coalitions and ideologies 6: Benjamin Chemouni: The politics of state capacity in post-genocide Rwanda: 'Pockets of effectiveness' as state-building prioritisations? 7: Sam Hickey, Badru Bukenya and Haggai Matsiko: The politics of PoEs in Uganda: trapped between neoliberal state-building and the politics of survival? Part III: Patterns and Ways Forward 8: Sam Hickey: Comparative analysis: PoEs and the politics of state-building and development in Africa 9: Julia Strauss: Pockets of effectiveness: Afterwords and new beginnings 10: Michael Roll: From pockets of effectiveness to topographies of state performance?

Sam Hickey is Professor of Politics and Development at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. As Research Director of the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) research centre (2011-2020), he worked with many colleagues on the links between politics and development, with particular reference to state capacity, natural resource governance, social protection, education, and gender equity. ESID's multiple open access books and papers on these topics are available at www.effective-states.org. He is currently Deputy CEO for the African Cities Research Consortium at the University of Manchester and President of the Development Studies Association.

• Merilee Grindle: Preface Part I: Introduction 1: Sam Hickey and Kate Pruce: PoEs and the politics of state-building and development in Africa 2: Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan: Reconceptualising the politics of PoEs: A power domains approach Part II: Case Studies 3: Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai: Political settlement dynamics and the emergence and decline of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Ghana 4: Matthew Tyce: 'Holding against the tide': The varying fortunes of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Kenya 5: Marja Hinfelaar and Caesar Cheelo: State capacity building in Zambia amidst shifting political coalitions and ideologies 6: Benjamin Chemouni: The politics of state capacity in post-genocide Rwanda: 'Pockets of effectiveness' as state-building prioritisations? 7: Sam Hickey, Badru Bukenya and Haggai Matsiko: The politics of PoEs in Uganda: trapped between neoliberal state-building and the politics of survival? Part III: Patterns and Ways Forward 8: Sam Hickey: Comparative analysis: PoEs and the politics of state-building and development in Africa 9: Julia Strauss: Pockets of effectiveness: Afterwords and new beginnings 10: Michael Roll: From pockets of effectiveness to topographies of state performance?

Sam Hickey is Professor of Politics and Development at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. As Research Director of the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) research centre (2011-2020), he worked with many colleagues on the links between politics and development, with particular reference to state capacity, natural resource governance, social protection, education, and gender equity. ESID's multiple open access books and papers on these topics are available at www.effective-states.org. He is currently Deputy CEO for the African Cities Research Consortium at the University of Manchester and President of the Development Studies Association.

• Merilee Grindle: Preface Part I: Introduction 1: Sam Hickey and Kate Pruce: PoEs and the politics of state-building and development in Africa 2: Sam Hickey and Giles Mohan: Reconceptualising the politics of PoEs: A power domains approach Part II: Case Studies 3: Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai: Political settlement dynamics and the emergence and decline of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Ghana 4: Matthew Tyce: 'Holding against the tide': The varying fortunes of bureaucratic pockets of effectiveness in Kenya 5: Marja Hinfelaar and Caesar Cheelo: State capacity building in Zambia amidst shifting political coalitions and ideologies 6: Benjamin Chemouni: The politics of state capacity in post-genocide Rwanda: 'Pockets of effectiveness' as state-building prioritisations? 7: Sam Hickey, Badru Bukenya and Haggai Matsiko: The politics of PoEs in Uganda: trapped between neoliberal state-building and the politics of survival? Part III: Patterns and Ways Forward 8: Sam Hickey: Comparative analysis: PoEs and the politics of state-building and development in Africa 9: Julia Strauss: Pockets of effectiveness: Afterwords and new beginnings 10: Michael Roll: From pockets of effectiveness to topographies of state performance?