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Measuring ethno-linguistic affinity between nations

de Groot, Olaf J. - 2009

Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …

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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...

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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...

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Chinese aid in Africa : attitudes and conflict

Sardoschau, Sulin; Jarotschkin, Alexandra - In: European journal of political economy 81 (2024), pp. 1-20

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Nationalized Incumbents and Regional Challengers: Opposition- and Incumbent-Party Nationalization in Africa

Wahman, Michael - 2015

ethnic fractionalization is high. The analysis utilizes a new data set of disaggregate election results for 26 African … that factors like ethnic fractionalization, the size of the geographical area, and urbanization affect party …

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Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa

Erdmann, Gero; Basedau, Matthias - 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 - 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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