Titlebook: Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space; Syncretic Responses Dennis Galvan (Associate Professor of Political Sc Book 2007 Palgrav

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Syncretism and Local-Level Democracy in Rural Senegalgether new, recombinant institutional structures—helps account for the relatively rare instances when democratic governance becomes consolidated, legitimate, and effective in postcolonial societies. This chapter follows efforts to syncretically modify local-level democratic institutions in one regio

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Institutional Syncretism and the Chinese Armed Forcesanced by the state and exist for a highly specialized purpose: the application of organized violence in defense of the state and in pursuit of the state’s interests. The military represents a formally separate sphere of operations from the more generalized civilian functions performed by the state.

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Syncretism in Argentina’s Party System and Peronist Political Culturebe called the Peronist “party”. as outcomes, this chapter enhances our understanding of two syncretic processes, triggered in part by the logic of political competition: first and foremost, the— polemical—naming of what became the central cleavage in Argentine politics; and second, a particular type

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The Dynamics of Institutional Adaptation and the Fruitful Emergence of Managerial Syncretism in Japad” referent societies as a key situational advantage of “backwardness.” The point of departure for this chapter is the observation that this advantage can be offset by a range of problems, conflicts, and tensions as local actors attempt to make sense of, and get accustomed to, new sets of rules and