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Reshaping political space? : The impact of the armed insurgency in the Central African Republic on political parties and representation
Mehler, Andreas - 2009
war and the peace process. Patterns of elite behavior are presented as the main explanation for the resulting crisis of … in der Zentralafrikanischen Republik. Argumentiert wird, dass das problematische Verhalten der Eliten, die zwischen … Kriegs- und Friedensprozesses. Verhaltensmuster der Elite werden als wesentliche Erklärung für die daraus resultierende Krise …
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The production of insecurity by African security forces : insights from Liberia and the Central African Republic
Mehler, Andreas - 2009
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The production of insecurity by African security forces : insights from Liberia and the Central African Republic
Mehler, Andreas - 2009
Little attention has been paid to the factual effect of the state's security forces on the security of African citizens. Reports about security forces - contribution to widespread insecurity are frequent: the protectors become violators and their appearance causes fear, not security. In many...
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Inclusive institutions and the onset of internal conflict in resource-rich countries
Wegenast, Tim C. - 2010
Studien über die institutionellen Determinanten innerstaatlicher Gewalt legen nahe, dass die Präsenz multipler politischer Parteien das Konfliktpotential innerhalb der Länder reduziert. Es wird behauptet, dass Parteien oppositionelle Gruppierungen in eine institutionalisierte politische Arena...
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Ethnicity, voter alignment and political party affiliation : an African case: Zambia
Erdmann, Gero - 2007
Conventional wisdom holds that ethnicity provides the social cleavage for voting behav-iour and party affiliation in … ; voting behaviour ; political party identification ; political party affiliation ; Zambia …
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Political party and party system institutionalisation in southeast Asia : a comparison of Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand
Ufen, Andreas - 2007
It is generally acknowledge that a higher degree of party and party system institutionalisation is positively correlated with the consolidation of democracy. It is, thus, useful to compare different levels and types of insititutionalisation. In this article the distinction made by Levitsky...
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Problems of categorizing and explaining party systems in Africa
Erdmann, Gero; Basedau, Matthias - 2007
systems. This phenomenon can be attributed to the most frequent "ethnic congress party" which is based on an ethnic elite …
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Political parties in post-Suharto Indonesia : between politik aliran and 'Philippinisation'
Ufen, Andreas - 2006
Surprisingly, the outcome of the 1999 and 2004 elections in Indonesia and the resultant constellation of political parties are reminiscent of the first Indonesian parliamentary democracy of the 1950s. The dynamics of party politics is still marked by aliran ("streams"), i.e. some of the biggest...
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The evolution of cleavages in the Indonesian party system
Ufen, Andreas - 2008
The basic patterns of the initial Indonesian party system have reemerged after more than four decades of authoritarianism. The cleavage model by Lipset and Rokkan is well-suited to analyzing the genesis of and the most salient features of this party system. However, in applying the approach,...
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Measuring party institutionalization in developing countries : a new research instrument applied to 28 African political parties
Basedau, Matthias - 2008
The institutionalization of political parties is said to be important for democratic development, but its measurement has remained a neglected area of research. We understand the institutionalization of political organizations as progress in four dimensions: roots in society, level of...
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