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For the observer of African political life, the importance of clientelist phenomena is not in doubt — from the employee who spontaneously offers his boss some small present in anticipation of a favour in return, to the political class which, in full force, religiously accompanies the president of the republic to the airport on each of his trips and is there on his return. The behaviour characteristic of clientele relations is found at every level of social reality.
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G. Balandier, Anthropo-logiques (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1974) ch. 3.
R. Lemarchand, ‘Les Relations de clientèle comme agent de contestation — le cas du Rwanda’, Civilisations, xviii, no. 4 (1968) 555.
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Bayart, JF. (1978). Clientelism, Elections and Systems of Inequality and Domination in Cameroun: A Reconsideration of the Notion of Political and Social Control. In: Hermet, G., Rose, R., Rouquié, A. (eds) Elections Without Choice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03342-3_4
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