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Indirect rule: armed groups and customary chiefs in eastern DRC

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  • Soeren J. Henn
  • Gauthier Marchais
  • Christian Mastaki Mugaruka
  • Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra

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This paper leverages a novel panel dataset covering the histories of 306 chiefs and 256 episodes of village governance and taxation by armed groups in 106 villages in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo in order to analyse the relationship between the governance of armed groups and the power of rural chiefs. The paper devises a strategy to measure chiefs' power, as well as the governance and taxation arrangements established by armed groups along several dimensions.

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  • Soeren J. Henn & Gauthier Marchais & Christian Mastaki Mugaruka & Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra, 2024. "Indirect rule: armed groups and customary chiefs in eastern DRC," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2024-18, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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