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Managing Ethnic Conflict: The Menu of Institutional Engineering

Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2011

, institutions can work on ethnic conflict by either accommodating (“consociationalists”) or denying (“integrationists”) ethnicity in … mostly inconclusive. The following questions remain open: a) Is politicized ethnicity really a conflict risk? b) What impact …

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Ethnicity, Voter Alignment and Political Party Affiliation – an African Case: Zambia

Erdmann, Gero - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

Conventional wisdom holds that ethnicity provides the social cleavage for voting behav-iour and party affiliation in … fallacy. The evidence based on individual data from an opinion survey in Zambia suggests that ethnicity matters for voter … affiliation and ethnicity – but that does not prove that they do not affiliate along ethnic lines. …

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Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa

Erdmann, Gero; Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

Starting from controversial findings about the relationship between party systems and the prospects of democratic consolidation, this article argues that problems can only be properly addressed on the basis of a differentiated typology of party systems. Contradictory research results do not pose...

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The Cleavage Model, Ethnicity and Voter Alignment in Africa: Conceptual and Methodological Problems Revisited

Erdmann, Gero - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2007

Recent research on political parties and ethnicity has challenged the conventional wisdom about ethnicity as the major … ethnicity, still provides heuristically the best foundation for the explanation of party formation and voting behaviour in … Africa. It points out that inconclusive and contradicting research results about the salience of ethnicity can be attributed …

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Ethnic Coalitions of Convenience and Commitment: Political Parties and Party Systems in Kenya

Elischer, Sebastian - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

This paper analyzes the role of ethnicity in shaping the character of Kenya’s political parties and its party system … since 1992. Drawing on a constructivist conception of ethnicity, it uses a framework of comparison derived from Donald …

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Promoting Peace and Democracy through Party Regulation? Ethnic Party Bans in Africa

Becher, Anika; Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2008

Since the sweeping (re)introduction of multiparty systems in the early 1990s almost all sub-Saharan countries have introduced bans on ethnic or – in more general terms – particularistic parties. Such party bans have been neglected in research, and this paper engages in a preliminary analysis...

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Does Uranium Mining Increase Civil Conflict Risk? Evidence from a Spatiotemporal Analysis of Africa from 1945 to 2010

Koos, Carlo; Basedau, Matthias - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2012

We employ a two-tier spatiotemporal analysis to investigate whether uranium operations cause armed conflict in Africa. The macrolevel analysis suggests that . compared to the baseline conflict risk . uranium ventures increase the risk of intrastate conflict by 10 percent. However, we find ethnic...

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Power Sharing in the Asia-Pacific

Reilly, Benjamin - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2014

Executive power sharing has been practiced widely in the Asia-Pacific region, in both for-mal and informal ways. This paper examines the theory and practice of these various ap-proaches to the sharing or dividing of governing power across the region. I look first at the broad issues of executive...

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The Successful Ghana Election of 2008 – a Convenient Myth? Ethnicity in Ghana’s Elections Revisited

Jockers, Heinz; Kohnert, Dirk; Nugent, Paul - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2009

Ghana’s 2008 elections have been hailed by national and international observers as a model for Africa. This perception has prevailed despite persistent concerns about “ethnic block voting” and electoral fraud. Electoral malpractice and vote rigging along ethnic lines in Ghana’s virtual...

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