Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Title | Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel N. Posner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2005-06-06 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1316582973 |
This book presents a theory to account for why and when politics revolves around one axis of social cleavage instead of another. It does so by examining the case of Zambia, where people identify themselves either as members of one of the country's seventy-three tribes or as members of one of its four principal language groups. The book accounts for the conditions under which Zambian political competition revolves around tribal differences and under which it revolves around language group differences. Drawing on a simple model of identity choice, it shows that the answer depends on whether the country operates under single-party or multi-party rule. During periods of single-party rule, tribal identities serve as the axis of electoral mobilization and self-identification; during periods of multi-party rule, broader language group identities play this role. The book thus demonstrates how formal institutional rules determine the kinds of social cleavages that matter in politics.
Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Title | Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel N. Posner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2005-06-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780521833981 |
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Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa
Title | Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Posner |
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Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa
Title | Ethnic Politics and State Power in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Roessler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 2016-12-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107176077 |
This book models the trade-off that rulers of weak, ethnically-divided states face between coups and civil war. Drawing evidence from extensive field research in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo combined with statistical analysis of most African countries, it develops a framework to understand the causes of state failure.
Institutions, Ethnicity, and Political Mobilization in South Africa
Title | Institutions, Ethnicity, and Political Mobilization in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | J. Piombo |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2009-08-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0230623824 |
An investigation of post-apartheid South Africa, which is notable for a history of politicized ethnicity, a complicated network of ethnic groups and for an expectation that ethnic violence would follow the 1994 political transition that did not occur following democratization.
Beyond Ethnic Politics in Africa
Title | Beyond Ethnic Politics in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Dominika Koter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2016-10-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107171490 |
Focussing on Sub-Saharan Africa, Dominika Koter analyses why ethnic politics emerge in some ethnically diverse societies, but not in others.
Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa
Title | Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Donald S. Rothchild |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780815775942 |
In this book, Donald Rothchild analyzes the successes and failures of attempts at conflict resolution in different African countries and offers comprehensive ideas for successful mediation. The book demonstrates how negotiation and mediation can promote conflict resolution, along with a political environment that fosters development.