2014
DOI: 10.20940/jae/2014/v13i1a1
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An introduction to the Politics of Party Alliances and Coalitions in Socially-divided Africa

Abstract: There is a gradual emergence of a body of knowledge about the factors that stimulate the formation, survival and disintegration of party alliances and coalitions in Africa. What is relatively less known is the impact of these alliances and coalitions on various aspects of political and governance systems in African countries. This article is a modest step towards explaining the effects of party alliances and coalitions on national cohesion and party systems in Africa's socially-divided states.

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“…Les études portant sur des cas africains sont presque inexistantes en français et, à ce stade, rares même en anglais. À cet égard, les études de Kadima (2006Kadima ( et 2014 4 , d'Arriola (2013), de Bogaards (2014), de Resnick (2014) et de Van de Walle (2006) constituent des exceptions.…”
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“…Les études portant sur des cas africains sont presque inexistantes en français et, à ce stade, rares même en anglais. À cet égard, les études de Kadima (2006Kadima ( et 2014 4 , d'Arriola (2013), de Bogaards (2014), de Resnick (2014) et de Van de Walle (2006) constituent des exceptions.…”
Section: La Contribution à La Compréhension De La Compétition Partisaunclassified
“…Il est vrai qu'il s'agit là de différents types de coalitions qui sont soumis, à certains égards, à divers calculs et dynamiques stratégiques, comme on le verra un peu plus loin. Il n'est pas moins vrai pourtant que ces différents types ont plusieurs autres dynamiques en commun et qu'ils concourent au même objectif : l'alternance au pouvoir en faveur de l'opposition (Kadima, 2014 ;Resnick, 2014). Le constat qu'on a fait plus haut concernant la nature imprévisible du choix de l'opposition s'applique également ici, et ce, dans l'un ou l'autre type de régime, tant au premier qu'au second tour des élections.…”
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“…Most contentious debates in a plural democracy, however, as it were by definition, involve a plurality of possible options -if, that is, the question has been asked correctly. 10 In which case, majority voting may be quite inappropriate. When there are indeed more than two options on the table, an individual voter or elected representative can only express his/her 10 In the 1992 referendum in Bosnia, for example, the question need not have been -in paraphrase -"Independence, yes or no?"…”
Section: Majority Votingmentioning
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“…10 In which case, majority voting may be quite inappropriate. When there are indeed more than two options on the table, an individual voter or elected representative can only express his/her 10 In the 1992 referendum in Bosnia, for example, the question need not have been -in paraphrase -"Independence, yes or no?" Rather, it could have offered the voter a range of options, which did already exist in political negotiations, from independence via confederation to status quo, and so on.…”
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confidence: 99%