New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa
New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa
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分析非洲政治权力的新工具
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2012
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通讯作者：
Francesco Trebbi
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I. Rainer;Francesco Trebbi
关于政治体系内不同参与者相对实力的信息匮乏，困扰着对专制国家和体制薄弱国家的研究。本文提出了适合这项任务的15个后殖民非洲国家样本中政府联盟组成的新数据。我们强调行政部门作为我们样本中所有国家政治制度的中心支点的作用，特别是相对于立法议会等其他机构而言。利用大量令人印象深刻的工作，记录了种族分裂作为非洲政治和社会摩擦的主要驱动因素的关键作用，本文进一步详细介绍了行政内阁种族构成措施的构建。我们将讨论这种新颖的信息来源如何有助于揭示典型的不透明的非洲政治精英的内部运作。
The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial African countries suited to this task. We emphasize the role of the executive branch as the central fulcrum of all national political systems in our sample, especially relative to other institutional bodies such as the legislative assembly. Leveraging on the impressive body of work documenting the crucial role of ethnic fragmentation as a main driver of political and social friction in Africa, the paper further details the construction of ethnic composition measures for executive cabinets. We discuss how this novel source of information may help shed light on the inner workings of typically opaque African political elites.