GI ACE Research Fellow co-authors chapter on state capture in Madagascar - Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence

A clean, minimal title page displaying the book’s name, Violence, Coercion, and the Politics of State Capture: Elites and Armed Actors in Vulnerable and Fragile States, with the editor’s name, Federico Manfredi Firman, centered beneath.

A new volume, Violence, Coercion, and the Politics of State Capture (Contemporary Security Studies), published on 16 June and edited by Federico Manfredi Firmian, features a chapter co-authored by GI ACE Research Fellow Tom Shipley and Ketakandriana Rafitoson, Executive Director of the Resource Justice Network and Vice-Chair of Transparency International.

The chapter draws on research conducted under the GI ACE project Building resilience to state capture, led by GI ACE Director Liz Dávid-Barrett.

Their chapter, State capture in Madagascar: power, profits and resistance, examines how entrenched corruption has shaped governance in Madagascar and exacerbated long-term state fragility. Covering more than a decade of political developments, the authors analyse persistent patterns of elite profiteering under President Andry Rajoelina, from his rise to power in a military-backed coup in 2009, to his ousting from office following Gen-Z protests in late 2025.

Previously, both authors contributed to the GI ACE working paper Madagascar at a crossroads: breaking the cycle of state capture, published in March 2026.