Pierre Englebert

[4] He previously worked at the World Bank in West Africa.

[1] Underlining much of Englebert's work are his arguments on how externally granted (de jury) sovereignty is used as a resource by African elites, who then redistribute state positions through patron-client relationships.

This is an extension of the existing "neopatrimonialism" theory of African politics.

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