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The Politics of Institutional Failure in Madagascar's Third Republic (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Institutional Failure in Madagascar's Third Republic (Hardcover)
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Madagascar's constitution of August 19, 1992 brought hope to a
population exhausted by economic failures associated with a failed
experiment in scientific socialism and years of mismanagement. The
repetition of transparent elections and the promulgation of "good
governance" in the years that followed appeared to serve as an
indicator of institutional strengthening and, by extension,
progress. Unfortunately, a broader institutional analysis points
toward a series of shocks to the political system by way of legal,
but highly detrimental, juridical and constitutional shifts to the
system. These shocks were meant to serve particularized political
networks with long clientalistic roots and were made possible by
the narrow vision of institutionalism that did not take careful
stock of those networks or the leaders at the top of them. Little
effort was made to look beyond a legislature brought in by careful
elections but producing legislation serving individuals, the ways
in which inchoate political parties distort institutional outcomes
and the potential for institutionalization, the weakness of civil
society to offer opportunities for popular engagement, or the use
of donor-funded decentralization programs to build ministries that
served as powerful and rapid proxies for leadership centralization.
By the time the celebrated president, Marc Ravalomanana, was
overthrown in March 2009 it became clear that there were few
opportunities to seed political opposition and such limited space
between individual leaders and primary institutions of public
management that critical state functions immediately began to
unravel. In this book the author considers the institutions of the
Third Republic, how they formed, and why they looked like models
for democratic change before turning to consider how the
institutions themselves have been manipulated in plain sight by
leaders looking to champion their own networks. He concludes that
the rise of the Fourth Republic in 2010 did little to address these
underlying concerns and argues that a new agenda is in order to
consider not just the way in which institutions form, but the way
in which networks of power, and leaders at the top of those
networks, grow and change malleable institutions in young
democracies with few avenues of accountability.
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