Herrschaft, Verhandlung und Gewalt in einer afrikanischen Mittelstadt (Parakou, Benin)

摘要: The ongoing or planned processes of political and administrative decentralisation in Africa are to be seen connection changes national regimes occurring the region since World War II. It is expected that this intervention "from above" will absorbed local arenas same way - relative locally ruling norms institutions. Decentralisation should, therefore, not as an equivalent democracy on level. Summary currently existing complex arrangement intermediary institutions can found many African arenas, result a historical process institutional accumulation. Questions now arising whether newly arranged (especially district councils mayors) including respectable patterns legitimacy merely additional within network those built able dominate ones by imposing their regulatory competence legitimisation actors, bodies, authorities, thereby becoming focus politics future. These considerations exemplified presenting results field research town Parakou, northern Benin. Thus, prognosis might given development democratic introduced Benin well other states