Dual control is the situation in which a national
government
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government ...
agrees to share control of its country with representatives of foreign governments, called ''controllers'', because it is
indebted to them.
Examples
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Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Med ...
, which was indebted to European powers after the completion of the
Suez Canal and thus forced to accept controllers in its government in the 1870s.
See also
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Dual power, in which a revolutionary force attempts to provide alternative government services
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Marxist theory