Abstract

What are informal political institutions? How different colonial institutions differently impact long-term economic and political development in former European colonies? What is the role of informal political institutions in the political stability of democratic and authoritarian regimes in post-colonial Africa? What is the dialectical relationship between formal state institutions and informal institutions of personal rule, ethnic clientelism and patronage? How informal institutions affect the public sphere, democratization and civil society?

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