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Lawson, Letitia. "Understanding Patrimonial Democracy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41889_index.html>

Lawson, L. , 2005-09-01 "Understanding Patrimonial Democracy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41889_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: There is virtual consensus about the patrimonial character of states/regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa, and much discussion about the obstacles this presents to full democratization. There has been much less analysis of how patrimonial states/regimes have shaped democratic procedures and institutions since the "third wave" arrived upon African shores a decade and a half ago. This paper undertakes a comparative analysis of 'patrimonial democracy,' exploring not how it might eventually lead to more liberal Western forms of governance but rather how it actually works. How are patrimonial democracies legitimized? How do they structure state-society, and society-society relations? Under what conditions are they more likely to consolidate, transition back to previous regime forms, or collapse into conflict? The paper sketches some preliminary answers to these questions, based upon a comparative analysis of Benin, Malawi and Congo-Brazzaville. Each of these countries experienced real political change with founding elections: incumbents were turned out of office. Each also has a traditional three-way ethnic/political divide, which provides an important control in the analysis. Despite these political and societal similarities, the three cases represent the range of possible values on the dependent variable: patrimonial democracy appears to have entered a consolidation phase in Benin; Malawi is reverting to a less democratic form of patrimonial rule; and the transition to patrimonial democracy in Congo-Brazzaville led to civil war and state collapse. The research question to be addressed in this paper is: why? To what extent can we identify structural explanations for divergent outcomes, and how much must be left to contingency?

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