Personal Rule in Black Africa

Rathbone, Richard; Jackson, Robert; Rosberg, Carl G.

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“…Obviously, it is easy to argue that neo-patrimonial institutions function in order to enrich political leaders and maintain their personal rule. This seems to be the conventional interpretation (see Callaghy, 1984;Jackson, 1987Jackson, , 1990Jackson and Rosberg, 1982;LeVine, 1980). Yet the neopatrimonial system of rule displays significant continuity over time and with different rulers.…”

Section: Forms Of Governancementioning

confidence: 94%

“…Different conceptions pervade the literature and, hence, the nature of the security dilemma, the principal contenders for the state, and African state formation and rearticulation are matters of scholarly dispute. Jackson's (1987Jackson's ( , 1990 formulation of quasi-states, building on conclusions in Jackson and Rosberg (1982), has been very influential, however. His well-known notion of quasi-states is similar to Buzan's (1991: 100) formulation of "weak states" characterized by (1) high levels of political violence;…”

Section: Sovereignty In Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Forms of States, Governance, and Regimes: Reconceptualizing the Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa

Lindberg

2001

International Political Science Review

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ABSTRACT. Building on the growing body of literature bridging international relations and historical sociology, this article argues that "consolidologists" have something to learn from this field. The discussion's point of departure is contemporary writings on sovereignty, security, and state formation in the African context. In an effort to synthesize insights from international relations and historical sociology with neo-institutional theory, a heuristic mode that suggests an alternative conceptualization of different forms of states, governance, and regimes is developed. The author argues that this model can be used to better understand the relationship between forms of states, variations in the institutions of governance, and transitions between regimes. Taking the model to be fruitful, the article finally suggests some hypotheses regarding the prospects for consolidation of democracy that can be tested in future empirical research.

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Section: Forms Of Governancementioning

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Section: Sovereignty In Africamentioning

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Forms of States, Governance, and Regimes: Reconceptualizing the Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa

Lindberg

2001

International Political Science Review

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“…To ensure discretion, formal institutions are largely weak, with little or no independent oversight and regulation. With few resources and little efficiency (the result of administrative purges), state institutions have little capacity to enforce laws, regulate the economy, or collect taxes (Jackson & Rosberg, 1982). Oversight and regulatory agencies, the civil service, and the judiciary are left "weak and politicized, thereby compounding the uncertainties that flow from central policies" (Lewis, 2007, p. 20).…”

Section: State Institutions Of Law and Oversightmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The predatory regimes examined here have the largest wage bill but the smallest state employment. This paradox is the result of contradictory strategies: Predatory rulers try to build up the bureaucratic apparatus as an instrument of their will (Jackson & Rosberg, 1982) but at the same time demand absolute loyalty. Predatory rulers act to eliminate potential opponents or resistance to their extractive projects partly by purging state administrations.…”

Section: State Employmentmentioning

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Beyond Clientelism

Grzymała-Busse¹

2008

Comparative Political Studies

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In choosing strategies of state capture (the extraction of private benefits by incumbent officeholders from the state), rulers choose whether to share rents with popular constituencies and whether to tolerate competition. These choices are conditioned by existing organizational endowments, the costs of buying support, and the trade-off between the cost and probability of exit from office. In turn, both rent distribution and competition result in distinct configurations of state capture: clientelism, predation, fusion, exploitation, and the formation of specific state institutions and capacities.

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“…It also shifted the readers' gaze to the legal and political maneuverings of each team. Three days after the election, The Boston Globe featured two articles that used the football metaphor: &dquo;A Touchdown for the Peo-ple&dquo; (Jackson, November 10, 2000) and &dquo;Democracy Fumbling for a Way For-ward&dquo; (Shribman, 2000). And articles such as &dquo;Seesawing Emotions Take the Campaigns on Wildest of Rides&dquo; (Bendavid & Pearson, 2000) used the football metaphor to describe the aura within political party offices.…”

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American Revolution: From the Electoral Gap to the Banana Republic

Magubane

Ignacio

2002

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Through an analysis of the rhetorical strategies used by mainstream U.S. media between November 8, 2000, and March 3, 2001, the authors show how the U.S. mainstream media helped to restabilize the United States as the pillar of democracy and how an analysis of media accounts can expose the "changing nature of the order of things." The authors demonstrate how the image of the United States as the pillar of democracy was protected through an analysis of (a) images of the Third World that provided a vocabulary for describing America's domestic crisis, (b) media descriptions of our own political foibles and descriptions of similar happenings in other countries, and (c) the downplaying of other countries' media accounts of the U.S. 2000 election crisis.

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Personal Rule in Black Africa

Cited by 603 publications

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Forms of States, Governance, and Regimes: Reconceptualizing the Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa

Forms of States, Governance, and Regimes: Reconceptualizing the Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa

Beyond Clientelism

American Revolution: From the Electoral Gap to the Banana Republic

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