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| Author | : Anja Osei |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2012-03-11 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3531191403 |
Parties in Africa are often described as organisationally and programmatically weak. On the other hand, they mobilise substantial numbers of voters at election time. This contradiction provokes an interesting question: How do political parties in Africa relate to the society? How do they mobilise their voters and sympathisers, and which strategies do they employ? Anja Osei analyses how parties in Ghana and Senegal adapt to their local context by employing locally embedded strategies.
| Author | : Michael Bratton |
| Publisher | : Lynne Rienner Pub |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781588268945 |
How do individual Africans view competitive elections? How do they behave at election time? What are the implications of new forms of popular participation for citizenship and democracy? Drawing on a decade of research from the cross-national Afrobarometer project, the authors of this seminal collection explore the emerging role of mass politics in Africa¿s fledgling democracies.
| Author | : Jaimie Bleck |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2018-11-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108680623 |
Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competitive legislative and presidential elections were held in all but a handful of the region's countries. This book is the first comprehensive comparative analysis of the key issues, actors, and trends in these elections over the last quarter century. The book asks: what motivates African citizens to vote? What issues do candidates campaign on? How has the turn to regular elections promoted greater democracy? Has regular electoral competition made a difference for the welfare of citizens? The authors argue that regular elections have both caused significant changes in African politics and been influenced in turn by a rapidly changing continent - even if few of the political systems that now convene elections can be considered democratic, and even if many old features of African politics persist.
| Author | : Nancy Bermeo |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 2016-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107156793 |
A comparative study of the role of political parties and movements in the founding and survival of developing world democracies.
| Author | : Rachel Beatty Riedl |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2014-02-13 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1139916904 |
Why have seemingly similar African countries developed very different forms of democratic party systems? Despite virtually ubiquitous conditions that are assumed to be challenging to democracy - low levels of economic development, high ethnic heterogeneity, and weak state capacity - nearly two dozen African countries have maintained democratic competition since the early 1990s. Yet the forms of party system competition vary greatly: from highly stable, nationally organized, well-institutionalized party systems to incredibly volatile, particularistic parties in systems with low institutionalization. To explain their divergent development, Rachel Beatty Riedl points to earlier authoritarian strategies to consolidate support and maintain power. The initial stages of democratic opening provide an opportunity for authoritarian incumbents to attempt to shape the rules of the new multiparty system in their own interests, but their power to do so depends on the extent of local support built up over time.
| Author | : Edalina Rodrigues Sanches |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2018-01-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1351778803 |
Institutionalization has become a paramount concept to compare party systems in regions spanned by the third wave of democratization. Based on raw electoral data from 30 sub-Saharan African countries observed between 1966 and 2016, this text explores the causes and mechanisms of Party System Institutionalization (PSI) and its relationship with the processes of mobilization and democratization. Posing key theoretical and empirical questions in cross-regional comparison, it examines and reveals the defining properties of PSI, how they should be measured and under what conditions it varies. In doing so, it contributes with a new explanatory framework of party system development – that gives primacy to modes of transition, political institutions and party-citizen linkages – to further cross-regional comparisons among third-wave party systems. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of democratization, elections, and African politics, and more broadly to comparative politics.
| Author | : Sebastian Elischer |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 341 |
| Release | : 2013-09-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107033462 |
This book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in ten African countries. Sebastian Elischer finds that five party types exist: the mono-ethnic, the ethnic alliance, the catch-all, the programmatic, and the personalistic party. He uses these party types to show that the African political landscape is considerably more diverse than conventionally assumed.
| Author | : Herbert Kitschelt |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2007-03-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0521865050 |
A study of patronage politics and the persistence of clientelism across a range of countries.
| Author | : Jonathan van Eerd |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2017-04-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3319508385 |
This book shows that democratization in sub-Saharan Africa can be successful, even if the government remains dominated by one major political party. If an institutionalized and strong opposition party – even when too weak to take power – challenges the dominant government party, the quality of democracy improves substantially. The comparative study demonstrates that competitive opposition parties in dominant party systems are rooted in the historical legacy of political cleavages related to de-colonization that precede the third wave of democratization of the 1990s and have survived the instability of post-independence political developments to the present day. The study covers 19 African countries and 55 elections overall, including four in-depth case studies of Botswana, Lesotho, Ghana and Mali. It offers scholars and practitioners of electoral democracies and competitive authoritarian regimes a novel view on the role of party systems in processes of democratization. It makes an important contribution to the general literature on state building intertwined with democratization and representation in old and new democracies.
| Author | : Susan J. Carroll |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2013-12-23 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107729246 |
The third edition of Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, and multifaceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process through the 2012 elections. This timely yet enduring volume strikes a balance between highlighting the most important developments for women as voters and candidates in the 2012 elections and providing a more long-term, in-depth analysis of the ways that gender has helped shape the contours and outcomes of electoral politics in the United States. Individual chapters demonstrate the importance of gender in understanding and interpreting presidential elections, presidential and vice-presidential candidacies, voter participation and turnout, voting choices, congressional elections, the political involvement of Latinas, the participation of African American women, the support of political parties and women's organizations, candidate communications with voters, and state elections. Without question, Gender and Elections is the most comprehensive, reliable, and trustworthy resource on the role of gender in US electoral politics.
