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- Title
STATE DYSFUNCTIONALITY: THE ROLE OF POLITICAL ELITES IN SOUTH SUDANESE STATE-CRAFTING AND COLLAPSE.
- Authors
Chol, J. D.
- Abstract
African social scientists have scarcely examined the topical subject of state crafting, failure and collapse. This article seeks to provide an examination of the South Sudanese state crafting, failure and collapse. It analyses the role of political elites in state-crafting, failure and collapse in South Sudan. Using empirical data, the article argues that South Sudanese political elites, particularly the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and South People's Liberation Army (SPLA), have contributed to state failure and collapse, rather than crafting. This observation is corroborated by political elites' struggles over power, secretive ethnic politics, rewarding of rebellions, corruption, usurping of resources and endless conflicts. The article uses process tracing in order to contextualise and validate causal chains; and it concludes that political elites have actively participated in causing the failure and collapse of the South Sudanese state. It recommends that visionary leadership be installed in order that the South Sudanese state may be institutionalised with resilience against political erosion.
- Subjects
SOUTH Sudan; POLITICAL elites; PEOPLE'S Liberation Army (China); SUDANESE; SOCIAL scientists; FAILED states; POLITICS &; ethnic relations
- Publication
Journal of Public Administration & Development Alternatives (JPADA), 2022, Vol 7, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
2415-5446
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.55190/JDHR9972