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The question of the reproduction of power is one of the central issues in politics. Since tenure of power is necessarily finite, how power is transmitted from one individual/group to another over time is of some consequence both for the rulers and for the ruled. The nature and practice of the reproduction of power over succeeding political generations is, in all polities, one of the hallmarks of the nature of political order.1
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Transfer of power assumes a ‘political free market’; see R. Dahl, Polyarchy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971).
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Chabal, P. (1992). The Reproduction of Power. In: Power in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12468-8_15
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