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Political Parties in Africa : Ethnicity and Party Formation.

This book examines the effects of ethnicity on polity politics in ten African countries.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elischer, Sebastian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tables; Abstract; Acknowledgments; 1 Comparative Politics and Political Parties in Africa; Harbingers of Evil? Ethnic Parties and Democracy; International Party Assistance and Ethnic Parties; Fighting Ghosts? Political Science and African Parties; Filling in the Gaps; The Structure of the Book; 2 A New Framework of Comparison for Political Parties; On the Study of Political Parties; Party Typologies in the Western World; Party Typologies Outside the Western World; Party Typologies in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia; Party Typologies in Africa.
  • Toward a New Framework of ComparisonThe Operationalization of the Amended Diamond and Gunther Typology; Party Goals; Electoral Strategy; Organizational Structure; Social Base; Aggregation; Toward Empirical Research; Comparative Politics and the Diamond and Gunther Typology; 3 Kenya; One-Party Rule and the Rise of Ethnic Cleavage Lines; Observation Period 1; FORD-Kenya: The Enduring Logic of Ethnic Politics; FORD-Asili: The Prisoners of Dr. Kenneth Matiba; The Democratic Party: In the Shadows of GEMA; The Kenyan African National Union: Entering the Democratic Age; Observation Period 2.
  • FORD-Kenya: From Alliance to Mono-Ethnic PartyThe National Development Party: FORD-Ks Former Luo Wing; The Democratic Party: The Beneficiaries of FORD-As Collapse; The Social Democratic Party: Toward Kamba Unity; The Kenyan African National Union; Observation Period 3; The National Alliance Rainbow Coalition; KANU, the Orange Democratic Movement-Kenya, and the Orange Democratic Movement; Kenya After the 2007 Elections; Political Parties in Africa: Findings from Kenya; 4 Namibia; Apartheid, Ethnic Cleavage Lines, and Political Parties; Observation Period 1.
  • The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance and the Democratic AgeThe South West African Peoples Organization; Observation Period 2; The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance Falls Apart; SWAPO Extending the SWAPO Kingdom; Observation Period 3; The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance and Its Disintegration; SWAPO: The Legacy of the Nujoma Succession; Observation Period 4; The Rise and Fall of the Congress of Democrats; SWAPO and Pohamba; Namibia After the 2009 Elections; Political Parties in Africa: Findings from Namibia; 5 Ghana; The First Three Republics, Ethnic Cleavage Lines, and Political Parties.
  • Observation Period 1The New Patriotic Party: In the Footsteps of the PP; The National Democratic Congress: A Dictator Elected; Observation Period 2; The New Patriotic Party: Generation Kufuor; The National Democratic Congress: A Dictator Reelected; Observation Period 3; The New Patriotic Party in Power; The National Democratic Congress Falling Apart; Observation Period 4; The New Patriotic Party in Its Second Term; The National Democratic Congress and Rawlings' Long Shadow; Ghana after the 2008 Elections; Political Parties in Africa: Findings from Ghana.