Dual Control (politics)
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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 (polity), state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive (government), execu ...
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 ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...
, which was indebted to European powers after the completion of the
Suez Canal The Suez Canal (; , ') is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, Indo-Mediterranean, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez and dividing Africa and Asia (and by extension, the Sinai Peninsula from the rest ...
and thus forced to accept controllers in its government in the 1870s.


See also

* Dual power, in which a revolutionary force attempts to provide alternative government services


References

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