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Title Beyond institutional blueprints: hybrid security provision and democratic practice in Mali
Full text https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3160763
Date 2021
Author(s) Vliet, M.T. van
Contributor(s) Abbink, G.J.; Cranenburgh, O.B.R.C. van; Biezen, I.C. van, Mann, G. (Committee member); Sears, J.M. (Committee member); Walraven, K. van (Committee member); Leiden University
Abstract This Malian case study joins an expanding body of literature that challenges prevailing state-centred and institutional approaches to both political authority and legitimacy. In contrast with classical representations of the state as the hierarchically supreme institutional locus of political authority in society, a heterarchical political order gradually emerged in Mali. The state increasingly operated as one of the institutions amongst many non-state equals involved in the exercise of public authority and performance of key statehood functions. The first part of this thesis reveals that the Malian state increasingly relied on non-state actors to counter recurrent security threats. The core part of this case study demonstrates that prominent democratic institutions have not enhanced Malian state legitimacy as expected from their official mandates and in ways predicted by theory. Quite to the contrary, the democratic structure seems to have actually weakened the position of the state vis-à-vis non-state power poles in Mali's heterarchical context. - Ministry of Foreign Affairs (IS-Academy) - Global Challenges (FSW)
Subject(s) Hybrid governance; Mali Sahel; Democratisation; State Building; Legislature; Decentralisation; Party system; Militias; Transnationalism; Peace-Keeping
Language en
Type of publication Doctoral Thesis; info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis; Text
Format application/pdf
Rights https://hdl.handle.net/1887/license:5
Identifier isbn:9789463327282; lucris-id:368363631
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
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