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<p>The manifest limited capacity of African states exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic provoked further need to contextualise governance to optimise the enduring contributions of traditional authority and related pre-existing structures, which underpin the functioning of the state, producing contexts of hybrid political orders. However, there is little discussion regarding how hybridity has transitioned through different political epochs to the post-pandemic era, and the implications for the viability of the contemporary state. This article undertakes an evolutionary/longue durée critique of hybrid political orders, examining the trend of chiefs’ impact on state governance across key different but intertwined phases of Ghana’s political history. A three-pronged typology of hybridity—<i>illiberal hybridity, extractive hybridity, and liberal-illiberal hybridity</i>— is introduced through the long-durée analysis of hybridity across periods, to offer a unifying theoretical understanding of hybrid political orders, providing a vital scholarly nuance on hybrid governance and more useful lessons for contextualising African politics.</p>

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(Re)theorizing hybrid governance in the Global South: chieftaincy’s resilience and implications for post-pandemic political order in Ghana

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    2025年10月4日

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  • Sebastian Angzoorokuu Paalo,
  • Aminu Dramani,
  • John-Paul Safunu Banchani,
  • Kawsara Wanyiwonara Mohammed

摘要

The manifest limited capacity of African states exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic provoked further need to contextualise governance to optimise the enduring contributions of traditional authority and related pre-existing structures, which underpin the functioning of the state, producing contexts of hybrid political orders. However, there is little discussion regarding how hybridity has transitioned through different political epochs to the post-pandemic era, and the implications for the viability of the contemporary state. This article undertakes an evolutionary/longue durée critique of hybrid political orders, examining the trend of chiefs’ impact on state governance across key different but intertwined phases of Ghana’s political history. A three-pronged typology of hybridity—illiberal hybridity, extractive hybridity, and liberal-illiberal hybridity— is introduced through the long-durée analysis of hybridity across periods, to offer a unifying theoretical understanding of hybrid political orders, providing a vital scholarly nuance on hybrid governance and more useful lessons for contextualising African politics.