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    Looking behind the window: measuring instrumental and normative reasoning in support for democracy

    Afrobarometer, 2008
    Standard arguments of rationality applied to individual political decisions do not take into account the plurality of forms of political reasoning in the process of preference formation. Scholars tend to rely on an economic model of preferences formation, and tend to characterize the underlying psychological basis of preferences formation as utilitarian.
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    Vote buying and violence in Nigerian election campaigns

    Afrobarometer, 2008
    Vote buying and political intimidation are important, if epiphenomenal, dimensions of Nigerian election campaigns. According to survey-based estimates, fewer than one out of five Nigerians is personally exposed to vote buying and fewer than one in ten experiences threats of electoral violence.
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    Corruption and trust in political institutions in sub-Saharan Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2008
    This paper analyzes the impact of corruption on the extent of trust in political institutions. More specifically, the author set out to test the “efficient grease” hypothesis that corruption can strengthen citizens’ trust since bribe paying and clientelism open the door to otherwise scarce and inaccessible services and subsidies - and that this increases institutional trust.
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    Is clientelism at work in African elections? A study of voting behavior in Kenya and Zambia

    Afrobarometer, 2009
    African politics is commonly characterized as clientelistic, having evolved from the concept of “neo-patrimonalism,” in the post-colonial authoritarian era. Neo-patrimonalism is a system where politicians are given jobs in exchange for service to the ruler. This study challenges the notion that personalism and clientelism structure voting behavior in Africa.
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    Looking toward the future: alternations in power and popular perspectives on democratic durability in Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2009
    The third African wave of democratization started in Namibia in 1989 and the prospects for democratization remain one of the most important political issues on the continent. However, the progress toward the more demanding goals of democratic consolidation and institutionalization has been uneven.
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    Vote-buying and political behavior: estimating and explaining vote-buying's effect on turnout in Kenya

    Afrobarometer, 2009
    Vote-buying has and continues to be pervasive in many electoral regimes. Yet the relationship between vote-buying and citizen behavior, particularly in the context of the secret ballot, remains largely unknown.
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    Grass root democracy and empowerment of people: evaluation of Panchayati Raj in India

    Munich Personal RePEc Archive, 2007
    At independence, about a third of the villages in India had flourishing traditional Panchayats. The government decided to promote their creation as effective units of local self- government with the aim of fostering democratic participation by involving villagers in the development of their communities to reduce the costs of administration.
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    Citizen perceptions of local government responsiveness in sub-Saharan Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2010
    The daily lives of Africans remain relatively untouched by the agents and institutions of a central state.
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    Political Participation in Africa: Participatory Inequalities and the Role of Resources

    Afrobarometer, 2010
    Political equality is at the heart of democracy although the ‘one person one vote’ notion is not sufficient to ensure political equality in this sense. This paper explores political participation in Africa and is motivated by the importance of broad-based citizen engagement for equitable democratic development in the emerging African democracies.
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    Anchoring the 'D-Word' in Africa

    Afrobarometer, 2010
    Recent years have seen a remarkable proliferation of comparative survey research within political science and cognate disciplines. To a greater or lesser extent these studies seek to capture public attitudes towards democracy, both on the demand side and the supply side.

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