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Just published Allard Duursma @AllardDuursma State weakness, a fragmented patronage-based system, and protracted local conflict in the Central African Republic @OUPPolitics @OxfordJournals academic.oup.com/afraf/advan…

State Weakness, a Fragmented Patronage-Based System, and Protracted Local Conflict in the Central...

Abstract. There is an academic consensus that addressing the local cleavages that drive armed conflict through local peacemaking is crucial to building pea

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It argues that extreme state weakness and a highly fragmented patronage-based system have prevented national-level peacemaking efforts from having a positive impact on local peacemaking efforts in the Central African Republic.
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The article demonstrates that even if an elite-level pact is in place, a lack of connections between national-level elites and local conflict parties can prevent peace from trickling down from the national level to the local level.
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Just published. Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana by @EllieGadjanova @GabrielleLynch6 Ghadafi Saibu @OUPPolitics @OxfordJournals academic.oup.com/afraf/advan…

Misinformation Across Digital Divides: Theory And Evidence From Northern Ghana

Abstract. Social media misinformation is widely recognized as a significant and growing global problem. Yet, little is known about how misinformation sprea

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This paper sets out how social, traditional, and pavement media form a complex and deeply gendered and socio-economically stratified media ecosystem and investigates its implications for how citizens differentially encounter, process, and respond to misinformation.
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The authors argue that efforts intended to combat the spread of misinformation need to move beyond the Western-centred conception of what constitutes media and take different local modalities of media access and fact-checking into account.
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We are delighted to announce that Dr George Bob-Milliar, Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, has joined us as an editor of African Affairs. Welcome to the editorial team and we look forward to working with you.
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As Dr Peace Medie @PeaceMedie completes her term as editor, our sincere thanks to her. Our authors and reviewers will know the hard work and dedication with which she has guided the journal. We owe her a great debt.
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Also trending in #PoliSci: ooir.org/trending.php?d=7&ca… • Love & Care for Remaking Worlds (@IntlStudiesRev) • Indian Foreign Service under Hindu Nationalist Rule (@IAJournal_CH) • When Coethnicity Fails (@World_Pol) • Wealth & Power In Tanzania’s Parliament (@AfrAfJournal)
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Just published: 'The power of the pen: Informal property rights documents in Zambia' Lauren Honig @BostonCollege academic.oup.com/afraf/advan… This article explores the expansion of informal property rights documents through the case of chiefs’ titles in Zambia.
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Evidence from 121 interviews with chiefs, bureaucrats, and smallholder farmers and a survey of over 5,500 citizens shows that, despite their flaws, chiefs’ titles do increase citizens’ perceptions of tenure security.
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This suggests that informal property rights documents can be a powerful tool in a citizen’s arsenal. Further, these findings illustrate a process of adaptation and change within customary land institutions.
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Trending in #AreaStudies: ooir.org/trending.php?d=7&ca… 1) Perceptions of Lebanese Political & Intellectual Elites toward Iran 2) Wealth, Power & Institutional Change In Tanzania’s Parliament (@AfrAfJournal) 3) Under-Protection & Popular Support For Police Violence In Nairobi
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Great thread from @MCollord on her paper just published.
Michaela Collord@MCollord8 Feb 2022
Happy to see this out! I would normally recap key points from the article here, but the AA thread does a lot of the work for me.
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Great thread from @MCollord on her paper just published.
Michaela Collord@MCollord8 Feb 2022
Happy to see this out! I would normally recap key points from the article here, but the AA thread does a lot of the work for me.
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Just published: 'Wealth, power and institutional change in Tanzania’s parliament' Michaela Collord @MCollord academic.oup.com/afraf/advan…

Wealth, Power And Institutional Change in Tanzania’s Parliament

Abstract. Tanzania’s legislature, or Bunge, has undergone considerable change in recent decades, gradually strengthening to attain unprecedented influence

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It uses insights from recent political settlements literature, as well as older work on African political economy, to outline how changes to Tanzania’s Parliament have both reflected—and magnified—shifting patterns of elite contestation within CCM.
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Exploring elite power struggles the paper demonstrates that these vary with changes in the extent of private wealth accumulation and the expansion of rival patron–client factions.
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