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  Rejecting the disloyal opposition? The trust gap in mass attitudes toward ruling and opposition parties in Africa

  Afrobarometer, 2008

  The re-introduction of multiparty electoral politics into much of Africa since the early 1990s was
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  Voting in Kenya: Putting ethnicity in perspective

  Afrobarometer, 2008

  The introduction of multiparty politics to Kenya in 1991 led to the population splintering along ethnic groupings. The first multiparty election in 1992 therefore rotated around ethnic alignments as were the 1997 general elections. But in the 2002, a broad coalition of ethnic groups supported Mwai Kibaki.
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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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  Do voters have different attitudes toward corruption? The sources and implications of popular perceptions and tolerance of political corruption

  Afrobarometer, 2009

  Political tolerance and political perceptions are analytically indistinguishable in current literature. In reality, however, individual attitudes toward political corruption are complicated and contingent on a myriad factors.
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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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