Regional cleavages in African politics: Persistent electoral blocs and territorial oppositions
Regional cleavages in African politics: Persistent electoral blocs and territorial oppositions
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非洲政治中的地区分裂:持续存在的选举集团和领土对立
DOI:
10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102741
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Boone C
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文献类型:
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作者:
Boone C
Do socio-economic cleavages shape electoral dynamics in African countries? Previous individual-level and party systems research on African politics has de-emphasized socio-economic factors, contributing to the common view that ethnic cleavages and short-term ethnic alliances define politics both locally and nationally. Focusing on Kenya, Zambia, and Malawi, we draw on methods in electoral geography to offer a spatial analysis of geographic patterns in constituency-level electoral returns over three decades that reveals the existence of persistentregionalvoting blocs that, in their temporal stability and multiethnic character, are not well explained by prevailing theory. The anomalies open the door to a reinterpretation national electoral structure and dynamics in the three countries that takes the geographic clustering of the persistent voting blocs as a clue to their etiology. We propose an interpretation that focuses on core-periphery cleavages in national electorates, following Lipset and Rokkan's (1967) classic model of territorial oppositions in countries undergoing political and economic integration and modernization. DHS data and proxies for regional economic activity support this interpretation. Socio-economic cleavages of the type explored in comparative political economy literatures on spatial inequality and territorial politics may be more salient in African electoral politics than previously thought.
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影响因子:
0.7
作者:
P. Gourevitch
通讯作者:
P. Gourevitch
DOI:
10.1080/21520844.2019.1580088
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
The Journal of the Middle East and Africa
影响因子:
--
作者:
Sebastian Elischer
通讯作者:
Sebastian Elischer
影响因子:
2.3
作者:
M. Wahman;Catherine Boone
通讯作者:
Catherine Boone
影响因子:
6.8
作者:
Daniel N. Posner
通讯作者:
Daniel N. Posner
影响因子:
5
作者:
R. Harding
通讯作者:
R. Harding