Electoral systems & reforms
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- An empirical analysis of African political party manifestos
- S. Elischer (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2010
- The third wave of democratisation in sub-Saharan Africa has led to a new interest in African political parties and their role in democratic consolidation. However few, if any, studies systematically c...
- Examining public attitudes towards MPs and South Africa's electoral system
- Afrobarometer, 2009
- Electoral reform has been attracting increasing interest in South Africa and a panel of experts has recommended that South Africa’s electoral system be reformed into a mixed system that would in...
- Citizen activism defeats Zambian President's anti-democratic plans
- C. Chella;S. Kabanda / South African Institute of International Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), 2005
- In 2001, Zambian President Frederick Chiluba tried to change the country’s constitution to allow him to run for a third term. However, a civil society-led campaign forced the President to aba...
- A sociological perspective on political opposition in sub-Saharan Africa
- K. Hulterstrom;A.Y. Kamete;H. Melber (ed) / Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2007
- This document is a compilation of three research papers originally presented to the Research Committee on Comparative Sociology at the XVI World Congress of Sociology held in 2006. The first chapter e...
- What is the effect of electoral violence on voter behaviour?
- P. Collier;P.C. Vicente / Households in Conflict Network , 2008
- Although many African states made the transition from autocracy to democracy, the shift has not been an easy one. Recent elections in Zimababwe, Kenya and Nigeria have exposed vote-buying, ballot f...
- Can aid build better political processes in new democracies?
- T. Carothers (ed) / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
- Political parties in aid receiving new or struggling democracies are often enmeshed in corruption, either in their attempts to get into power or in their exercise of power. Western aid donors providin...
- Pakistan's local government accountability and the role of voter turnout
- K.T. Akramov;S. Qureshi;R. Birner;B.H. Khan / International Food Policy Research Institute , 2008
- The paper argues that as the scope of decentralisation in the developing world increases, and political and economic authority is devolved to local governments, there is a need to better understand th...
- Explaining ethnic voting in Kenya
- M. S. Kimenyi;R. G. Romero / Department of International Development (Queen Elizabeth House), University of Oxford, 2008
- This study, using survey data on voter opinions and actual voter turnout in the Kenyan elections 2007, argues that ethnic voting can be explained on the basis of a minimax-regret strategy which sugges...
- Governments risk losing elections after drought
- S. A. Cole;A. Healy;E. D. Werker / Harvard Business School , 2008
- Models of political accountability suggest that the governments which perform poorly fail to get re-elected. Recent evidence suggests, however, that voters may punish politicians even for events outsi...
- Explaining the distributional divergence in China and Vietnam
- R. Abrami;E. Malesky;Y. Zheng / The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 2008
- This article describes variation in authoritarian institutions by investigating the puzzle of divergent patterns of inequality in China and Vietnam, both high-growth single-party regimes. China‘...
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