An Uncertain Transition

Security, Violence, and Neopatrimonialism in the Central African Republic

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ID6224960
AuthorsGino Vlavonou (0000-0002-9969-0384, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume228
Issue4
Pages121
Publication date2016-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTiers-Monde (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1963-1359 • E-ISSN: 1293-8882
PublisherCAIRN (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3917/rtm.228.0121
OpenAlexW2571103817
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited12

This paper examines the transition in the Central African Republic (CAR) after its first multiparty election in 1993. With the election of Faustin-Archange Touadéra on March 1, 2016, reflecting on the past twenty years is relevant to understand the challenges the new president faces. This article focuses on the insecurity of elites as having no ontological core to explain why the governing elite in the CAR relies on a neopatrimonial style of governing. Consequently, as the elite?s insecurity increases, neopatrimonialism moves towards a narrower clientelism in which resources only reach an increasingly small circle of cronies. The article concludes that insecurity is linked to the exclusionist policies that have prevented the democratic transition in the CAR

Ancient history · Central asia · Computer security · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Political science · African Studies and Ethnography · Chemistry · Computer Science · History · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Political Conflict and Governance

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