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dc.contributor.authorHolm, John D.
dc.contributor.authorBotlhale, Emmanuel
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-15T09:02:13Z
dc.date.available2019-02-15T09:02:13Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationHolm, J.D. & Botlhale, E. (2008) Persistence and decline of traditional authority in modern Botswana politics. Botswana Notes and Records, Vol. 40, pp. 74-87en_US
dc.identifier.issn0525-5090
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10311/1896
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the role traditional authorities have played in post-independence Botswana and their likely future impact. Three overarching themes run through the analysis. First, this illiberal institution is facilitating the integration of traditional political morality and interests within Botswana's emerging modern, semi-democratic, polity. Second, the chiefs and the headmen keep local party organisations, which often have little opposition competition and are subject to manipulation periodically by national party leaders, attentive to local developmental concerns. Finally, while traditional authorities find themselves marginalised in terms of legal authority, they may, if they choose, remain a significant force in their communities through the use of their symbolic authority.en_US
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dc.publisherBotswana Society, www.botsoc.org.bwen_US
dc.subjectTraditional authorityen_US
dc.subjectpost independenceen_US
dc.subjectpoliticsen_US
dc.subjectmodern Botswanaen_US
dc.titlePersistence and decline of traditional authority in modern Botswana politicsen_US
dc.typePublished Articleen_US
dc.linkhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/41236034.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Afe5cb3b6f67a011b026dc5596237f8b0en_US


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