What is it about?
This paper shows that international politics, economy, culture and movements are intricately linked to one another, such that it has a significant impact on how domestic political institution evolves. It specifically deals with the international economic order, continental politics, and cultural movement that have primarily shaped how traditional leaders evolved in South Africa. This paper highlighted three explanatory factors at the domestic, external and conceptual level, stressing the external, that is, the international perspective, at length.
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Why is it important?
This paper attempts to highlight a holistic approach to understanding the political behaviour of traditional political institutions. Many studies have dealt with the institution of traditional leaders. Still, an integrated understanding involving the inevitability of the international political economy and cultural movements and their linkages have not been discussed in detail. In that, this paper adds to the literature of comparative politics and political institution studies.
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In developing countries, especially in traditional communities, the international political economy and cultural movement have a huge stake in the evolution of local political institutions. How traditional leaders manoeuvre through this reality, however, varies depending on the institutional capacities.
Shimreisa Chahongnao
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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This page is a summary of: International Clout in the Political Salience of Traditional Leadership in South Africa, November 2021, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.31124/advance.17009369.v1.
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