Bureaucrats, peasants and the dominant coalition: An Egyptian case study
通过埃及农业官员的案例，质疑地方官僚必须成为村庄层面“主导联盟”一部分的观点，指出资源匮乏的官僚可能无足轻重，其职位反被富裕农民利用。
This article challenges the thesis that local‐level bureaucrats need be part of any ‘dominant coalition’ at the village level. Based on a case study of Egyptian agricultural officials, the paper argues that local bureaucrats may well be more useless than dominant in any political or economic sense. In rural areas in which local officials lack the resources (supplies, funds) to do their jobs, they may well be quite inconsequential. In such situations their position as ‘public servants’ may be appropriated by members of the rich peasantry, who have no particular need to work closely with resource‐poor local government staff.