Dynamic Patronage Coalitions

This study suggests that the framework of dynamic patronage coalitions, based on Roker's coalition theory and workings patron-client networks, ran fruitfully be utilized in analyzing African politics, particularly light increasing prevalence state-society approaches need for a comparative referent. The narrowing helps explain frequency coups, secession attempts, exile invasions first decade or so after 1960, while retraction accounts disengagement portions citizenry from channels state more recent years. current sociopolitical turmoil affecting many states indicates coalitions stemming an anti-incumbent class identity may successfully challenge stagnating long-entrenched patrons.