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

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. -- Social cleavages ; ethnicity …

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 … political environment is a by-product of the omnipresence of this party type. -- Social cleavages ; ethnicity ; political party …

implementation. -- Sub-Saharan Africa ; party bans ; ethnicity ; conflict ; democracy …

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 …

Despite earlier assumptions that ethnicity is a central feature of African party systems, there is little substantial … Faso, Mali, and Niger. Multivariate regression models and bivariate control tools reveal that ethnicity matters as a …

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 …