identified. This can partly be explained by the prevailing authoritarian nature of many multiparty regimes in Africa as well as … coalition. -- Africa ; South of Sahara ; party systems ; conceptual analysis ; democratisation ; electoral system ; social …Die Parteienforschung zu Afrika hat bisher widersprüchliche Befunde zum Zusammenhang von Parteiensystem und zu den …

institutionalization remains necessary, particularly regarding its causes and consequences. -- Political parties ; sub-Saharan Africa … Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass die Institutionalisierung politischer Parteien in Afrika wesentlich differenzierter zu …

Recent publications suggest that exclusively ethnoregional parties are as rare in sub- Saharan Africa as elsewhere. At … supplement the dominant structuralist thinking in party research on Africa. An in-depth evaluation of detailed election data from …Die neuere Literatur legt nahe, dass exklusive ethnoregionale Parteien im subsaharischen Afrika ähnlich selten sind wie …

Despite a growing interest in African political parties, no comparative analyses of political ideology in Africa have …

Since 1990 the banning of ethnic and other identity-based parties has become the norm in sub-Saharan Africa. This … hand, where such a ban was nonexistent until 2008, parties have not proven to be more regional. -- Sub-Saharan Africa … subsaharischen Afrika zur Norm geworden. Der vorliegende Aufsatz analysiert drei ostafrikanische Länder, die verschiedene Wege im …

factor that explains voter alignment in Africa. The paper maintains that the cleavage model, although modified to include … Africa. It points out that inconclusive and contradicting research results about the salience of ethnicity can be attributed … pattern across Africa, but will differ from one country to the other. -- Africa ; social cleavages ; cleavage model …