Une histoire politique du Tonkpi dans l’Ouest ivoirien

Allouche, Jérémy; Bley, H.

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“…Given the area's mixed demography and relatively high population density, the "Far West" has been an important site of political competition among Côte d'Ivoire's national political parties (Chauveau, 2000;Allouche & Bley, 2017). 6.…”

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“…Evidence from our respondent survey (Supplemental Material Table A5) indicates that Ivorians in near-border rebel areas were more likely to report being victims of violence, and were more likely to report that international peacekeeping forces visited their community between 2002 and 2011. This is unsurprising, given that the western zone—particularly Tonkpi/Montagnes—was a locus of partisan violence during the Ivorian conflict (Allouche & Bley, 2017; Balcells, 2017). However, we find that the prevalence of permanent FN camps and perceptions of the quality of wartime education and health services were quite similar in ceasefire line-adjacent communities compared to the rest of the FN zone.…”

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“…As a result, communities in these regions are characterized by a high degree of ethnic heterogeneity (the largest groups being the Mande, Krou, and Akan), as well as a history of inter-communal tensions over land access rights. Given the area’s mixed demography and relatively high population density, the “Far West” has been an important site of political competition among Côte d’Ivoire’s national political parties (Chauveau, 2000; Allouche & Bley, 2017).…”

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How does exposure to rebel rule affect citizens’ political attitudes after armed conflicts end? We combine original survey data from Côte d’Ivoire with a natural experiment based on the arbitrary location of a ceasefire boundary to estimate the effects of exposure to rebel rule by the Forces Nouvelles (FN) on Ivorians’ sense of democratic citizenship. Our findings show that individuals in communities ruled by the FN held more negative attitudes about local government institutions 7 years after the reunification of the country, held weaker commitments to civic obligations, and were more likely to condone extralegal actions. The effects of rebel rule are larger than the effects of extreme lived poverty and appear among both rebel coethnics and non-coethnics. Using qualitative and survey evidence, we propose three theoretical mechanisms to explain why exposure to rebel rule weakened citizen-state relations: disrupted norms of compliance with state-like authorities, the formation of local self-help institutions leading to negative assessments of the redeployed state, and resentment due to unmet expectations of economic recovery. Our study informs debates about the links between war, citizenship, and statebuilding.

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The Political Legacies of Rebel Rule: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Côte d’Ivoire

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Crise post-électorale en Côte d’Ivoire et logique de la non-violence en milieu urbain: une illustration à partir des villes de Gagnoa, Guiglo et San Pedro en 2010–11

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2020

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Local elites, civil resistance, and the responsiveness of rebel governance in Côte d’Ivoire

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2021

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Why is rebel governance more responsive in some areas than in others? In recent years, scholars have started to examine the determinants of rebel governance. Less attention has been given to explaining variation in the responsiveness of rebel governance, that is, the degree to which rebels are soliciting and acting upon civilian preferences in their governance. This article seeks to address this gap by studying local variation in rebel responsiveness. I argue that rebel responsiveness is a function of whether local elites control clientelist networks that allow them to mobilize local citizens. Strong clientelist networks are characterized by local elite control over resources and embeddedness in local authority structures. In turn, such networks shape local elites’ capacity for mobilizing support for, or civil resistance against, the rebels, and hence their bargaining power in negotiations over rebel governance. Drawing on unique interview and archival data collected during eight months of fieldwork, as well as existing survey data, the study tests the argument through a systematic comparison of four areas held by the Forces Nouvelles in Côte d’Ivoire. The analysis indicates that the strength of local elites’ clientelist networks shapes rebel responsiveness. Moreover, it provides support for the theorized civil resistance mechanism, and shows that this mechanism is further enhanced by ethnopolitical ties between civilians and rebels. These findings speak to the burgeoning literature on rebel governance and to research on civil resistance. In addition, the results inform policy debates on how to protect civilians in civil war.

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Une histoire politique du Tonkpi dans l’Ouest ivoirien

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

The Political Legacies of Rebel Rule: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Côte d’Ivoire

The Political Legacies of Rebel Rule: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Côte d’Ivoire

Crise post-électorale en Côte d’Ivoire et logique de la non-violence en milieu urbain: une illustration à partir des villes de Gagnoa, Guiglo et San Pedro en 2010–11

Local elites, civil resistance, and the responsiveness of rebel governance in Côte d’Ivoire

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