The making of a rentier class: Wealth accumulation and political control in Senegal
研究了后殖民非洲国家如何利用权力培育私人寻租而非生产性投资，以维持统治阶级的政治凝聚力，并以塞内加尔为例说明食利者阶级的形成如何阻碍本地资本积累。
Political and economic dynamics set in motion by efforts to consolidate post‐colonial regimes have contributed to the continuing weakness of indigenous bourgeoisies throughout much of post‐colonial Africa. This article suggests that state power has been used to foster private rent‐seeking, rather than productive local private investment, in order to promote and sustain the political cohesion of ruling classes. The political consolidation of dominant rentier classes (forged through state patronage and clientelist mechanisms of control) creates obstacles to the emergence of local class strata interested in, or capable of, using state power to promote the expanded accumulation of capital (be it local or foreign). A study of Senegal illustrates this point.