introduced bans on ethnic or - in more general terms - particularistic parties. Such party bans have been neglected in research … implementation. -- Sub-Saharan Africa ; party bans ; ethnicity ; conflict ; democracy …, and this paper engages in a preliminary analysis of their effects on democracy and peace. Theoretically, particularistic …

Conventional wisdom holds that ethnicity provides the social cleavage for voting behav-iour and party affiliation in … alignment and even more so for party affiliation, but it is certainly not the only factor. The analysis also points to a number … subgroups do not identify with one particular party, it is difficult to find a significant statistical correlation between party …