Examples of continuity

• Our particular interest is to identify (dis)continuities in the transformation from a colonial to an independent state.

• Perhaps the relative stability of the 12 families explains some of the continuities.

• The continuities can be striking, most notably at the apex of power.

• Such continuities are important, not least because they concern the human context within which the new top political elite functions.

• In the present case, the historically grounded theory that we propose tends to emphasise continuities rather than ruptures.

• Not surprisingly, the transition to democracy has incorporated many institutional continuities with the past.

• One therefore has to be explicit as to which kind of continuities between people of different historical periods are suggested.

• Can any subcutaneous continuities be traced beyond the obvious differences in argumentation?