Institutions Ethnicity And Political Mobilization In South Africa
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Author | : J. Piombo |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2009-08-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230623824 |
An investigation of post-apartheid South Africa, which is notable for a history of politicized ethnicity, a complicated network of ethnic groups and for an expectation that ethnic violence would follow the 1994 political transition that did not occur following democratization.
Author | : Daniel N. Posner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2005-06-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316582973 |
This book presents a theory to account for why and when politics revolves around one axis of social cleavage instead of another. It does so by examining the case of Zambia, where people identify themselves either as members of one of the country's seventy-three tribes or as members of one of its four principal language groups. The book accounts for the conditions under which Zambian political competition revolves around tribal differences and under which it revolves around language group differences. Drawing on a simple model of identity choice, it shows that the answer depends on whether the country operates under single-party or multi-party rule. During periods of single-party rule, tribal identities serve as the axis of electoral mobilization and self-identification; during periods of multi-party rule, broader language group identities play this role. The book thus demonstrates how formal institutional rules determine the kinds of social cleavages that matter in politics.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2020-06-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 900443044X |
Democracy and Electoral Politics in Zambia aims to comprehend the current dynamics of Zambia’s democracy and to understand what was specific about the 2015/2016 election experience. While elections have been central to understanding Zambian politics over the last decade, the coverage they have received in the academic literature has been sparse. This book aims to fill that gap and give a more holistic account of contemporary Zambian electoral dynamics, by providing innovative analysis of political parties, mobilization methods, the constitutional framework, the motivations behind voters’ choices and the adjudication of electoral disputes by the judiciary. This book draws on insights and interviews, public opinion data and innovative surveys that aim to tell a rich and nuanced story about Zambia’s recent electoral history from a variety of disciplinary approaches. Contributors include: Tinenenji Banda, Nicole Beardsworth, John Bwalya, Privilege Haang’andu, Erin Hern, Marja Hinfelaar, Dae Un Hong, O’Brien Kaaba, Robby Kapesa, Chanda Mfula, Jotham Momba, Biggie Joe Ndambwa, Muna Ndulo, Jeremy Seekings, Hangala Siachiwena, Sishuwa Sishuwa, Owen Sichone, Aaron Siwale, Michael Wahman.
Author | : Philip Roessler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107176077 |
This book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war. Drawing evidence from extensive field research in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo combined with statistical analysis of most African countries, it develops a framework to understand the causes of state failure.
Author | : Anthony W. Marx |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1998-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521585903 |
Why and how has race become a central aspect of politics during this century? This book addresses this pressing question by comparing South African apartheid and resistance to it, the United States Jim Crow law and protests against it, and the myth of racial democracy in Brazil. Anthony Marx argues that these divergent experiences had roots in the history of slavery, colonialism, miscegenation and culture, but were fundamentally shaped by impediments and efforts to build national unity. In South Africa and the United States, ethnic or regional conflicts among whites were resolved by unifying whites and excluding blacks, while Brazil's longer established national unity required no such legal racial crutch. Race was thus central to projects of nation-building, and nationalism shaped uses of race. Professor Marx extends this argument to explain popular protest and the current salience of issues of race.
Author | : Lovise Aalen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2011-06-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004207295 |
Ethiopia s unique system of ethnic-based federalism claims to minimise conflict by organising political power along ethnic lines. This empirical study shows that the system eases conflict at some levels but also sharpens inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic divides on the ground.
Author | : John F. McCauley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2017-05-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107175011 |
The book is aimed at students and scholars of conflict, Africa, ethnic politics, and religion. It may also appeal to religious and political leaders. It proposes a new perspective on how ethnicity and religion shape political outcomes and violence in Africa, adding psychological elements to standard political science arguments.
Author | : University of Cologne Forum »Ethnicity as a Political Resource« |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2015-08-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3839430135 |
How is ethnicity viewed by scholars of different academic disciplines? Can its emergences be compared in various regions of the world? How can it be conceptualized with specific reference to distinct historical periods? This book shows in a uniquely and innovative way the broad range of approaches to the political uses of ethnicity, both in contemporary settings and from a historical perspective. Its scope is multidisciplinary and spans across the globe. It is a suitable resource for teaching material. With its short contributions, it conveys central points of how to understand and analyze ethnicity as a political resource.
Author | : Catherine Boone |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2014-02-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1107040698 |
In sub-Saharan Africa, property relationships around land and access to natural resources vary across localities, districts, and farming regions. These differences produce patterned variations in relationships between individuals, communities, and the state. This book captures these patterns in an analysis of structure and variation in rural land tenure regimes. In most farming areas, state authority is deeply embedded in land regimes, drawing farmers, ethnic insiders and outsiders, lineages, villages, and communities into direct and indirect relationships with political authorities at different levels of the state apparatus. The analysis shows how property institutions - institutions that define political authority and hierarchy around land - shape dynamics of great interest to scholars of politics, including the dynamics of land-related competition and conflict, territorial conflict, patron-client relations, electoral cleavage and mobilization, ethnic politics, rural rebellion, and the localization and "nationalization" of political competition.
Author | : Bruce Berman |
Publisher | : James Currey Publishers |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780821415702 |
A useful collection for students as the interest in the politics of ethnicity continues.