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Competing cleavages in sub-Saharan Africa? : how economic distance affects ethnic bloc politics
Conroy-Krutz, Jeffrey - 2016
Does economic standing cross-cut ethnicity in African electoral politics? In many countries in the region, ethnicity appears to be a major consideration in individuals' political decision-making. However, there is significant variation in the extent to which coethnics support parties en bloc;...
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Clientelism and governance
Bardhan, Pranab K. - 2021
Unlike much of the growing literature on political clientelism, this short paper contains mainly the author's general reflections on the broad issues of governance (or mis-governance including corruption), democracy, and state capacity that clientelism has an impact on. It then analyses how its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590877
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Is economic development affected by the leaders' education levels? : evidence from India
Jain, Chandan; Kashyap, Shagun; Lahoti, Rahul; Sahoo, Soham - 2022
Although formal education is often considered an indicator of political leaders' quality, the evidence on the effectiveness of educated leaders is mixed. Besides, minimum education qualifications are increasingly being used as requirements for contesting elections, making it critical to...
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Do gifts buy votes? : evidence from sub-Saharan Africa
Guardado, Jenny; Wantchekon, Leonard - 2021
associated with higher turnout than would be expected; yet, in only one election (Nigeria in 2003) did this higher turnout …
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Why are Mexican politicians being assassinated? : the role of oil theft and narcocracy and the electoral consequences of organized crime
Gutiérrez-Romero, Roxana; Iturbe, Nayely - 2023
When does organized crime resort to assassinating politicians? In narcocracies, criminal groups co-opt political elites through bribery in exchange for protection to traffic illegal drugs. When criminal groups compete, they may also resort to political violence to influence which candidate wins...
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Hidden hostility : donor attention and political violence
Anderson, Siwan; Francois, Patrick; Rohner, Dominic; … - 2022
interaction in a simple strategic model and empirically test the predictions using fine-grained data for Africa. The theory …
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Ethnic conflict: the role of ethnic representation
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clots-Figueras, Irma; Lakshmi Iyer - 2023
We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in India. We code data on Hindu-Muslim violence and Muslim political representation in India and leverage quasi-random variation in legislator religion generated by the results of...
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Inequality and voting in fragile countries : evidence from Mozambique
Bove, Margherita; Egger, Eva-Maria; Jones, Sam; … - 2024
The political consequences of economic inequality have been debated in academic and policy circles for centuries. The nature of this relationship seems highly dependent on specific contexts, with empirical studies showing mixed evidence on how economic inequality affects voting and other forms...
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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 …
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Does the African middle class defend democracy? : evidence from Kenya
Cheeseman, Nic - 2014
consolidation. However, qualitative evidence from the Kenyan 2013 general election raises important questions about the resilience …
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