Spectacle of Authority: Governance, Legitimacy, and Institutional Decay in Contemporary Tanzania Essays on Performative Crisis of Accountability

This volume analyzes the relationship between political authority and institutional performance in contemporary Tanzania. Across thirty-two chapters, it identifies a recurring governance pattern: the substitution of episodic, high-visibility executive intervention for routine, rule-based institutional functioning.The central analytical concept is performative legitimacy, defined as a mode of gover...