An Uncertain Transition: Security, Violence, and Neopatrimonialism in the Central African Republic

Gino Vlavonou

Revue Tiers-Monde, 2016, vol. N° 228, issue 4, 121-142

Abstract: This paper examines the transition in the Central African Republic (CAR) after its first multiparty election in 1993. With the election of Faustin-Archange Touadéra on March 1, 2016, reflecting on the past twenty years is relevant to understand the challenges the new president faces. This article focuses on the insecurity of elites as having no ontological core to explain why the governing elite in the CAR relies on a neopatrimonial style of governing. Consequently, as the elite?s insecurity increases, neopatrimonialism moves towards a narrower clientelism in which resources only reach an increasingly small circle of cronies. The article concludes that insecurity is linked to the exclusionist policies that have prevented the democratic transition in the CAR.

Keywords: Central African Republic; neopatrimonialism; insecurity; transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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