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Linda J. Beck. Brokering Democracy in Africa: The Rise of Clientelist Democracy in Senegal. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. xiii + 280 pp. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $79.95. Cloth.
African Perspectives: Papers in the History, Politics, and Economics of Africa Presented to Thomas Hodgkin. Edited by Christopher Allen and R. W. Johnson. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. 439. $17.50.)
Enlarging the street and negotiating the curb: public space at the edge of an African market
The making of a rentier class: wealth accumulation and political control in Senegal
Political and economic dynamics set in motion by efforts to consolidate post鈥恈olonial regimes have contributed to the continuing weakness of indigenous bourgeoisies throughout much of post鈥恈olonial Africa. This article suggests that state power has been used to foster private rent鈥恠eeking, rather than productive local private investment, in order to promote and sustain the political cohesion of ruling classes. The political consolidation of dominant rentier classes (forged through state patronage and clientelist mechanisms of control) creates obstacles to the emergence of local class strata interested in, or capable of, using state power to promote the expanded accumulation of capital (be it local or foreign). A study of Senegal illustrates this point