Patronage,District Creation,and Reform in Uganda |
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Authors: | Elliott Green |
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Institution: | (1) Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics, London, UK |
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Abstract: | The effects of economic and political reforms on patronage in Africa remains unclear. In particular, there is much disagreement
about whether structural adjustment programs and democratization have helped to make patronage less pervasive in African politics.
Here, I examine the case study of Uganda, which has received much praise for its large-scale economic and political reforms
since the late 1980s. However, at the same time, Uganda has also experienced a near-explosion in the number of districts (the
highest level of local government), going from 39 to 80 in less than a decade. I examine a variety of potential reasons why
these districts might have been created and argue, through the use of both qualitative and quantitative analysis, that district
creation has functioned as a source of patronage. Specifically, I show that President Museveni’s government has created new
districts as a means to compensate for other patronage resources lost through reforms and that new districts have helped him
to continue to win elections. This paper thus constitutes the first rigorous demonstration that the creation of new sub-national
political units can constitute a form of patronage and suggests that similar processes may be currently taking place across
Africa. |
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