Does economic standing cross-cut ethnicity in African electoral politics? In many countries in the region, ethnicity …

provision from the start. Rather than assuming that ethnicity underlies service distribution in Africa, we argue that … remains highly uneven across the country. Most studies of service provision in Africa assume that politicians will target … councillors and their mayor helps to account for the variation in service provision across South Africa's municipalities. We test …

identified. This can partly be explained by the prevailing authoritarian nature of many multiparty regimes in Africa as well as …

Africa. It points out that inconclusive and contradicting research results about the salience of ethnicity can be attributed …Recent research on political parties and ethnicity has challenged the conventional wisdom about ethnicity as the major … factor that explains voter alignment in Africa. The paper maintains that the cleavage model, although modified to include …

effects of parental ethnicity on an individual's human capital skill level and show that colonial origin may be important in …