Sub-national politics and the advent of dual rule in Tanzania, 1961-1965

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Title:	Sub-national politics and the advent of dual rule in Tanzania, 1961-1965
Author:	Tooker, Peter D.
Year:	1976
Periodical:	Quarterly Journal of Administration
Volume:	11
Issue:	1-2
Pages:	43-62
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Tanzania
Subjects:	decentralization one-party systems
Abstract:	In the period 1961-1965 the Tanzanian state underwent profound administrative changes. The period marks a radical departure not only from the administrative history of colonial Tanganyika, but much of pre-colonial Tanganyika as well. For, while a majority of the governmental structures of Tanganyika before 1961 were marked by a vertical command structure, the TANU governement of Julius Nyerere introduced a form of administration kwown as 'dual rule'. This resulted in a dispersion of power among party and state agencies which acted as a check on the power of conservative elements in the state apparatus at the provincial level, and afforded TANU greater say in the implementation of development programs. The fundamental problem evinced throughout this study is the conflict between traditional peasants and insitutions and the new, national elite and their politics of modernization. In the period 1961-1965 power was redistributed from the state apparatus to TANU cadres, and from local officials to the central party office in Dar es Salaam. Notes, tables.