Elected MPs, Traditional Chiefs, and Local Public Goods: Evidence on the Role of Leaders in Co-Production From Rural Zambia

Baldwin, Kate

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“…Muriaas, 2009;Ubink, 2008). For Zambia and Sub-Saharan Africa in general, Baldwin (2013Baldwin ( , 2015Baldwin ( , 2019 shows the contemporary roles of TPI, for example, in public goods provision and electoral outcomes. Hariri (2012) focuses on how strong, proto-state pre-colonial institutions have led to an autocratic legacy in many non-European countries.…”

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“…This type of co-existence is not limited to Sub-Saharan Africa but can be found across the globe (Holzinger, Kern and Kromrey, 2016, 470), with an estimated 57 percent of the world population living in countries where customary and other forms of law exist in parallel (JuriGlobe 2019). Moreover, TPI are also an important factor shaping various political issues and outcomes, ranging from the provision of public goods (Baldwin , 2019 Goist and Kern 2019), economic development (Acemoglu, Reed and Robinson, 2014), democracy and elections (Baldwin 2013(Baldwin , 2014(Baldwin , 2019 While the existence of TPI is a worldwide phenomenon, for Sub-Saharan Africa in particular, several scholars have identified a "resurgence" of TPI in recent years (e.g . Englebert 2002a;Erk 2014;Logan 2009;Ubink 2008).…”

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“…This type of coexistence is not limited to Sub-Saharan Africa but can be found across the globe (Holzinger et al, 2016: 470), with an estimated 57% of the world population living in countries where customary and other forms of law exist in parallel (JuriGlobe World Legal Systems Research Group, 2019). Moreover, TPI are also an important factor shaping various political issues and outcomes, ranging from the provision of public goods (Baldwin, 2015, 2019; Goist and Kern, 2018), economic development (Acemoglu et al, 2014), democracy and elections (Baldwin, 2013, 2014, 2019; Baldwin and Holzinger, 2019; Baldwin and Mvukiyehe, 2015; de Kadt and Larreguy, 2018; Koter, 2013) or peace and conflict (Mustasilta, 2019; Wig and Kromrey, 2018). The interaction of TPI and the state plays a crucial part in these outcomes, especially where their agendas collide.…”

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Explaining the Constitutional Integration and Resurgence of Traditional Political Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

2020

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Social scientists have recently observed a ‘resurgence’ of traditional political institutions on the constitutional level in Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, the scope and causes of the resurgence remain unclear. We base our analysis on original data on the degree of constitutional integration of traditional institutions and on their constitutional resurgence since 1990 in 45 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. We test six theoretical explanations for constitutionalization: former colonial rule, democratization, state capacity, economic development, foreign aid and settlement patterns. First, we verify the broad resurgence of traditional political institutions on a constitutional level. Second, our analysis suggests that, particularly in former British colonies, traditional leaders were able to translate the arrangements of British colonial rule as well as the advantages of a country’s deconcentrated settlement pattern into greater constitutional status. Third, settlement patterns proved important for traditional leaders to gain or increase constitutional status – leading to a constitutional resurgence of traditional institutions.

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“…The final article by Baldwin (2019) compares the effectiveness of hereditary chiefs and elected MPs in organizing locally funded public goods in Zambia. Specifically, the analysis compares the effects of leadership vacancies for chiefs and MPs caused by the death of the previous office holder.…”

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Traditional Political Institutions and Democracy: Reassessing Their Compatibility and Accountability

Baldwin

Holzinger

2019

Comparative Political Studies

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This article revisits prominent frameworks for understanding traditional political institutions which make pessimistic assessments about their compatibility with democracy. Traditional political institutions are often assumed to be unaccountable because they are led by undemocratic leaders who are not subject to electoral sanctioning. However, drawing on new information from the TradGov Group dataset, an expert survey on the contemporary practices of more than 1,400 ethnic groups that currently have traditional political institutions, we show that these institutions contain their own distinct mechanisms of accountability. In a majority of cases, decision-making is consensual and leaders must account for their actions in various ways. We challenge the electoral accountability framework for understanding the quality of traditional leaders’ performance, instead arguing that traditional political institutions can be compatible with democracy and even accountable to their citizens insofar as they adopt inclusive decision-making processes and their leaders have strong nonelectoral connections to the communities they represent.

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“…On policies (e.g. land, local public goods), actors across pillars often interact, and sometimes agree and at other times disagree (Baldwin 2014, 2018; Zenker 2015; Honig 2017). In meta-constitutional bargaining, the pillars are always in opposition, as they are dividing a single proverbial ‘pie’ of authority legitimacy.…”

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Traditional authority and bargaining for legitimacy in dual legitimacy systems

Mershon

Shvetsova

2019

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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This paper investigates the quest for legitimacy conducted by hereditary, traditional leaders in dual legitimacy systems. We theorise that traditional leaders engage in meta-constitutional bargaining, i.e. bargaining among constitutionally and traditionally defined actors within the meta-constitutional space. This process resembles constitutional bargaining in federations over the institutional balance between the members and centre, and among members. We thus propose a parallel between the theory of federal bargaining, on the one hand, and, on the other, the process of institutional balancing between agents in constitutional and traditional authority structures in dual legitimacy systems. Evidence from narratives of institutional balancing between constitutional and traditional authorities in Southern Africa suggests that actors’ strategies in dual legitimacy systems accord with the framework here. The narratives also disclose that both constitutional and traditional authorities rely on the state's courts for adjudication. The paper enriches social science scholarship on traditional authority, political economy and federalism.

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Elected MPs, Traditional Chiefs, and Local Public Goods: Evidence on the Role of Leaders in Co-Production From Rural Zambia

Cited by 31 publications

References 54 publications

Explaining the Constitutional Integration and Resurgence of Traditional Political Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Explaining the Constitutional Integration and Resurgence of Traditional Political Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa

Traditional Political Institutions and Democracy: Reassessing Their Compatibility and Accountability

Traditional authority and bargaining for legitimacy in dual legitimacy systems

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