Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in post-colonial Africa. In such alliances, the national governments preserve rural-elite authority formed during the colonial era and cede their resources and prerogatives to the rural elites. This paper develops a model of bargaining between a national government and a rural elite, in which the bargaining power of the national government is endogenously explained by the ability of the rural elite to compel obedience from rural residents. Since indirect colonial rule is a significant source of the rural-elite control over residents, the result implies that cross-regional variations in colonial policies lead to variations in the feature of post-colonial alliances bet...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
Bates (1981) identified how African governments perpetuated poor agricultural policies due to their ...
Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in post-colonial Africa. In s...
Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in postcolonial Africa. Governm...
Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in postcolonial Africa. Governm...
IIn this paper, we analyze the connection between the history of colonial rule and postcolonial deve...
Recent empirical studies claim to have identified roots of Africa’s poverty in its colonial past, pa...
Recent empirical studies claim to have identified roots of Africa’s poverty in its colonial past, pa...
Recent empirical studies claim to have identified roots of Africa’s poverty in its colonial past, pa...
Recent empirical studies claim to have identified roots of Africa’s poverty in its colonial past, pa...
Colonialism has influenced the development of states on the African continent. This study examines t...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
Bates (1981) identified how African governments perpetuated poor agricultural policies due to their ...
Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in post-colonial Africa. In s...
Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in postcolonial Africa. Governm...
Alliances between national governments and rural elites are observed in postcolonial Africa. Governm...
IIn this paper, we analyze the connection between the history of colonial rule and postcolonial deve...
Recent empirical studies claim to have identified roots of Africa’s poverty in its colonial past, pa...
Recent empirical studies claim to have identified roots of Africa’s poverty in its colonial past, pa...
Recent empirical studies claim to have identified roots of Africa’s poverty in its colonial past, pa...
Recent empirical studies claim to have identified roots of Africa’s poverty in its colonial past, pa...
Colonialism has influenced the development of states on the African continent. This study examines t...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neg...
Bates (1981) identified how African governments perpetuated poor agricultural policies due to their ...