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Dominique Orsini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • centre periphery Relations in afghanistan badakhshan between patrimonialism and institution building
    Central Asian Survey, 2009
    Co-Authors: Antonio Giustozzi, Dominique Orsini
    Abstract:

    The article offers a review of centre–periphery Relations and local politics in the Afghan province of Badakhshan from the 1980s to the post-2001 era. It maps the local powerbrokers and charts the transformations that occurred during this period, with particular reference to the impact of the central government's policies on local political alignments and Relations of power. The key argument is that President Karzai's and the cabinet's behaviour towards Badakhshani politics was aimed at re-establishing a patrimonial system, rather than at institution-building as claimed. Unable or unwilling to successfully deal with established local players, Kabul resorted to sponsoring new players in local politics and facilitating their rise in order to weaken more independent powerbrokers. However, a local perception of weakness in Kabul, not least due to uncertainty over the durability of the Karzai administration, led local players, old and new, to behave with very short-term horizons, as ‘roving bandits’ rather tha...

Patrick Le Gales - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • top down to bottom up centre periphery Relations and power structures in france s gaullist party
    West European Politics, 1993
    Co-Authors: Andrew Knapp, Patrick Le Gales
    Abstract:

    Changes in centre‐periphery Relations, both institutional (most notably decentralisation) and socio‐economic (the growing importance of cities) have radically altered the environment in which French political parties operate. The unprecedentedly close links between parties and the local political system that have resulted have profoundly affected power structures within the parties. Just as the Fifth Republic ‘presidentialised’ parties, so decentralisation has ‘localised’ them. The case of the Rassemblement pour la Republique, the inheritor to the top‐down, presidentialist tradition of Gaullism, is a remarkable illustration of this transformation.

Alice Hills - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • off road policing communications technology and government authority in somaliland
    International Affairs, 2016
    Co-Authors: Alice Hills
    Abstract:

    Prompted by the trend to see information and communications technology (ICT) as a tool for capacity building, this article asks whether the use of ICT has-or can-recast Centre-Periphery Relations in a hybrid country such as Somaliland. Taking as its departure point Herbst's observation that a fundamental problem confronting African leaders concerns how to extend or consolidate authority over sparsely settled lands, it uses recent developments in Somaliland's coast guard and immigration police to assess ICT's contribution to changing security provision in remote and coastal areas. This allows for an analysis of Somaliland's law enforcement framework, the Relationship between its politics and practice, the practical application of its coercive resources, and the Silanyo government's priorities and preference for consensus and co-existence whenever security imperatives allow. It suggests that ICT can be a desirable operational tool or a variable in existing power networks, but that it does not represent a new mode of security governance. ICT's potential to connect Somaliland's government and populace, and politics and practice, is for now minimal, but identifying the ways in which security actors such as coast guards actually use ICT allows for a more accurate assessment of the variables shaping Centre-Periphery Relations. Contrary to Herbst's observation, the Silanyo government does not need to overtly or systematically extend, consolidate or exert its authority in remote and coastal areas. Spatial metaphors such as Centre-Periphery help to clarify the situation, but the significance invested in them reflects western rationalities, rather than Somali realities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Antonio Giustozzi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • centre periphery Relations in afghanistan badakhshan between patrimonialism and institution building
    Central Asian Survey, 2009
    Co-Authors: Antonio Giustozzi, Dominique Orsini
    Abstract:

    The article offers a review of centre–periphery Relations and local politics in the Afghan province of Badakhshan from the 1980s to the post-2001 era. It maps the local powerbrokers and charts the transformations that occurred during this period, with particular reference to the impact of the central government's policies on local political alignments and Relations of power. The key argument is that President Karzai's and the cabinet's behaviour towards Badakhshani politics was aimed at re-establishing a patrimonial system, rather than at institution-building as claimed. Unable or unwilling to successfully deal with established local players, Kabul resorted to sponsoring new players in local politics and facilitating their rise in order to weaken more independent powerbrokers. However, a local perception of weakness in Kabul, not least due to uncertainty over the durability of the Karzai administration, led local players, old and new, to behave with very short-term horizons, as ‘roving bandits’ rather tha...

Andrew Knapp - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • top down to bottom up centre periphery Relations and power structures in france s gaullist party
    West European Politics, 1993
    Co-Authors: Andrew Knapp, Patrick Le Gales
    Abstract:

    Changes in centre‐periphery Relations, both institutional (most notably decentralisation) and socio‐economic (the growing importance of cities) have radically altered the environment in which French political parties operate. The unprecedentedly close links between parties and the local political system that have resulted have profoundly affected power structures within the parties. Just as the Fifth Republic ‘presidentialised’ parties, so decentralisation has ‘localised’ them. The case of the Rassemblement pour la Republique, the inheritor to the top‐down, presidentialist tradition of Gaullism, is a remarkable illustration of this transformation.