Habitus and economic institutions of the rentier regime in Algeria: Interactions and discrepancies

<ul> <li>Algeria’s rentier economy persists not due to institutional failure alone, but because a historically entrenched habitus actively sustains and legitimizes the status quo.</li> <li>Formal institutions fail not due to a lack of laws, but because informal norms and personal ties still rule the game.</li> <li>Without tackling beliefs and everyday practices, institutional reforms remain a façade — symbolic but ineffective.</li> </ul>