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Neopatrimonialism Revisited: Beyond a Catch-All Concept
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GERO ERDMANN
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
ULF ENGEL
Leipzig University
February 2006
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies Working Paper No. 16
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Abstract:
The article provides a critical discussion of the literature on "patrimonialism" and "neopatrimonialism" as far as the use in Development Studies in general or African Studies in particular is concerned. To overcome the catch-all use of the concept the authors present their own definition of "neopatrimonialism" based on Max Weber's concept of patrimonialism and legal-rational bureaucracy. However, in order to make the concept more useful for comparative empirical research, they argue, it needs a thorough operationalisation (qualitatively and quantitatively) and the creation of possible subtypes which, in combination, might contribute to a theory of neopatrimonial action.
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Keywords: Neopatrimonialism, patrimonial and legal-rational bureaucratic domination, hybrid regimes, rent seeking
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Erdmann, Gero and Engel, Ulf, "Neopatrimonialism Revisited: Beyond a Catch-All Concept"
(February 2006).
Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=909183
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ERDMANN
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ERDMANN
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Deutsches Übersee-Institut/German Overseas Institu
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
D-20354 Hamburg
Germany
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ULF
ENGEL
Email address for ULF
ENGEL
Leipzig University
Institute for Economic Policy
Marschnerstrasse 31
Leipzig
40109
Germany
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