Definition
- Haitian historians came up with this term. Literally, it translates as “government by understudies”. Meaning, powerful people put unqualified bureaucrats in government positions to benefit the former’s interests.
- Trouillot gives us several examples of Haitian presidents who were installed to power via politique de doublure.
- To consolidate their own powers, mulâtre puppet masters like Ardouin, Beaubrun and his brothers, for example, secretly installed several dark-skinned presidents—Guerrier, Philippe (1844-45), Pierrot, Jean-Louis (1845-46), and Riché, Jean-Baptiste (1846-47).
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