Authoritarian – No legitimacy, based on coercive force of political authorities
Legitimacy – Belief that powerful groups/broad citizenry that a state exercises legal authority
Accountability – Government’s responsibility to its population
Unfinished State – Characterized by instabilities/uncertainties that may make a state susceptible to collapse
Jihad – Struggle
Acephalous Society – Headless societies
Emirs – Traditional Islamic ruler
Indirect Rule – British style of colonialism, local traditional rulers/political structures to help support colonial governing structure
Warrant Chiefs – By British to oversee legal matter/assist colonial enterprise in governance and law enforcement
Interventionist – Acts to shape performance of major sectors of the economy
Clinetelism – Patron-Client network, leads to high corruption
Autocracy – Government in which one of few rulers have absolute power
Rents – Above- market returns to a factor of production
Rent-Seeking – Pursuit of economic rents, profit seeking that takes form of nonproductive economic activity
Structural Adjustment Program (SAD) – Med-term programs by World Bank to reform economic structures of third world countries in debt
International Financial Institutions (IFI) – World Bank or IMF
Balance of Payments – Indicator of internal flow of funds showing credit or debit in payments between countries
Privatization – Sale of state-owned enterprises to private companies or investors
Self-Determination – Right to live together in a given territory in whatever manner desired
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) – 1975: Broaden economies, freedom of movement, monetary cooperation
Para-Statals – State owned corporations to control agricultural production, provision of banking services, operation of air-lines
Shari’a – Islamic law derived from Qur’an
Prebendalism – Political behavior on justification that officials utilized for personal benefit – Patron-client
Civil Society – Space occupied by voluntary associations outside the state
State Corporatism – Political system in which all member of the economic sector must join an officially designated interest group
Patrimonialism – System of governance in which a single ruler treats people as person property
Legitimacy – Belief that powerful groups/broad citizenry that a state exercises legal authority
Accountability – Government’s responsibility to its population
Unfinished State – Characterized by instabilities/uncertainties that may make a state susceptible to collapse
Jihad – Struggle
Acephalous Society – Headless societies
Emirs – Traditional Islamic ruler
Indirect Rule – British style of colonialism, local traditional rulers/political structures to help support colonial governing structure
Warrant Chiefs – By British to oversee legal matter/assist colonial enterprise in governance and law enforcement
Interventionist – Acts to shape performance of major sectors of the economy
Clinetelism – Patron-Client network, leads to high corruption
Autocracy – Government in which one of few rulers have absolute power
Rents – Above- market returns to a factor of production
Rent-Seeking – Pursuit of economic rents, profit seeking that takes form of nonproductive economic activity
Structural Adjustment Program (SAD) – Med-term programs by World Bank to reform economic structures of third world countries in debt
International Financial Institutions (IFI) – World Bank or IMF
Balance of Payments – Indicator of internal flow of funds showing credit or debit in payments between countries
Privatization – Sale of state-owned enterprises to private companies or investors
Self-Determination – Right to live together in a given territory in whatever manner desired
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) – 1975: Broaden economies, freedom of movement, monetary cooperation
Para-Statals – State owned corporations to control agricultural production, provision of banking services, operation of air-lines
Shari’a – Islamic law derived from Qur’an
Prebendalism – Political behavior on justification that officials utilized for personal benefit – Patron-client
Civil Society – Space occupied by voluntary associations outside the state
State Corporatism – Political system in which all member of the economic sector must join an officially designated interest group
Patrimonialism – System of governance in which a single ruler treats people as person property