Author : Philip Roessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : 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.
Author : Okwudiba Nnoli
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Crawford Young
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Bruce Berman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 669 pages
File Size : 42,35 MB
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821442678
The politics of identity and ethnicity will remain a fundamental characteristic of African modernity. For this reason, historians and anthropologists have joined political scientists in a discussion about the ways in which democracy can develop in multicultural societies. In Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa, the contributors address why ethnicity represents a political problem, how the problem manifests itself, and which institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenges that ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building.
Author : Daniel N. Posner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2005-06-06
Category : 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.
Author : Dominika Koter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 39,82 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : 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.
Author : Godfrey Mwakikagile
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560729679
This book is more than just a study of ethnic politics in Kenya and Nigeria. The two countries are a microcosm of the entire continent: the problems it faces, its successes and failures, and the hope and despair of hundreds of millions of its people whose aspirations have been frustrated by decades of corrupt leadership that has skilfully exploited one of Africa's biggest weaknesses -- tribalism. But the people themselves are also responsible for that. They have allowed tribalism to flourish and destroy the countries. And they have allowed unscrupulous politicians to use and abuse them -- without storming the Bastille. What they are not responsible for is dictatorship African leaders instituted to perpetuate themselves in office by exploiting tribalism. These despots have been so good at it, and have done it for so long since independence, that many African countries are now on the brink of collapse, with the people at war against themselves.
Author : Matthijs Bogaards
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317981448
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of democracy since the 1990s has been accompanied by the proliferation of bans on ethnic political parties. A majority of constitutions in the region explicitly prohibit political parties to organize on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, region and other socio-cultural attributes. More than a hundred political parties have been dissolved, suspended or denied registration on these grounds. This book documents the experience with ethnic party bans in Africa, traces its origins, examines its record, and answers the question whether ethnic party bans are an effective and legitimate instrument in the prevention of ethnic conflict. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.
Author : E Udogu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 38,34 MB
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351738437
This title was first published in 2001. The central characteristics of political ethnicity and its dysfunctional attributes in African politics is vexing to Africa's policy makers. Moreover, as a conflictive ideology in national and international politics, many political actors would rather avoid it. In the past, nationalists have blamed ethnic chauvinists for fanning the embers of ethnicity, but today they realize they may have underestimated its prominence in African politics.
Author : Dominika Koter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131677290X
Why do ethnic politics emerge in some ethnically diverse societies but not others? Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, Dominika Koter argues that the prevailing social structures of a country play a central role in how politicians attempt to mobilize voters. In particular, politicians consider the strength of local leaders, such as chiefs or religious dignitaries, who have historically played a crucial role in many parts of rural Africa. Local leaders can change the electoral dynamics by helping politicians secure votes among people of different ethnicities. Ethnic politics thus can be avoided where there are local leaders who can serve as credible electoral intermediaries between voters and politicians. Koter shows that there is widespread variation in the standing of local leaders across Africa, as a result of long-term historical trends, which has meant that politicians have mobilized voters in qualitatively different ways, resulting in different levels of ethnic politics across the continent.
