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Are electoral coalitions harmful for democratic consolidation in Africa?
Resnick, Danielle - 2011
Electoral coalitions are becoming increasingly popular among opposition parties in Africa because they offer many … in terms of their policy orientation. Based on a dataset spanning all opposition coalitions since 2000 in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280093
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Ghana: Poverty reduction over thirty years
McKay, Andy; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarp, Finn - 2015
Ghana is relatively rare among Sub-Saharan African countries in having had sustained positive growth every year since the mid-1980s. This paper analyses the nature of the growth and then presents an analysis of the evolution of both consumption poverty and non-monetary poverty outcomes over this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418585
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Growth and poverty reduction in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing; Demery, Lionel; McKay, Andy; Tarp, Finn - 2015
After many years of relatively slow growth, Tanzania's national accounts data report accelerated aggregate growth since around 2000. Our analysis shows that there has been somewhat slower growth in private consumption and in sectors such as agriculture in which most of the poor work and live....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418641
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Foreign aid in Africa: Tracing channels of influence on democratic transitions and consolidation
Resnick, Danielle - 2012
How does aid impact democracy in sub-Saharan Africa? Drawing on existing literature, this study elaborates on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319801
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Populist strategies in African democracies
Resnick, Danielle - 2010
strategies by political parties during recent presidential elections in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia. Specifically, the paper … argues that the nature of party competition in Africa, combined with rapid urbanization and informalization of the labour … Africa intersect with voting behaviour and political party development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280234
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The political participation of Africa's youth: Turnout, partisanship, and protest
Resnick, Danielle; Casale, Daniela - 2011
The youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa. Today, as the region … generational identities within the region, very little is really known about the political participation of Africa's youth. In … order to address this issue, we combine country-level variables for 19 of Africa's most democratic countries with individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280251