"Big men" in sub-Saharan Africa: How elites accumulate positions and resources

Comparative Sociology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 271-285

  Daloz, Jean Pascal ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELITE POLITICS; POLITICAL POWER; POWER RELATIONS;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARA;

EID: 0037955461     PISSN: 15691322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156913303100418681     Document Type: Article

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