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The Legacy of a Rev...
The Legacy of a Revolution that Never Happened : The Post-War Politics of Former Rebel Party RUFP in Sierra Leone
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- Söderberg Kovacs, Mimmi, 1974- (författare)
- Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), Sweden
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- 2019-08-28
- 2021
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Government and Opposition. - : Cambridge University Press (CUP). - 0017-257X .- 1477-7053. ; 56:2, s. 245-259
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- The former rebel party Revolutionary United Front Party (RUFP) in Sierra Leone has struggled with a discredited wartime reputation and electoral defeats throughout the post-war period. In spite of this, the party has remained loyal to its wartime revolutionary ideas, symbols and political rhetoric. Why is this the case? In this article, I argue that the answer lies in the premises of party politics in war-torn states and new democracies on the African continent. In a political landscape where brokerage is power, retaining wartime identities can sometimes serve as a valuable source of (potential) patronage. With few other options for access to resources and opportunities, the core of the party membership has clung to its past as a means to both rally electoral support among the marginalized ex-combatant community and to get access to the long-awaited funds that were promised to them in the peace negotiations.
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- Public Administration
- Sociology and Political Science
- Peace and Conflict Research
- Freds- och konfliktforskning
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- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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