Are African party systems different?

Brambor, Thomas; Clark, William R.; Golder, Matt

doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2006.06.011

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“…Juxtaposing our results with those by and Brambor et al (2006a) shows that pooling elections across different settings leads to different results. 24 Mozaffar et al get substantially different results from the ones we get by correctly specifying the domain of analysis.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…argued that African systems are not quite the same as the ones in established democracies. Brambor et al (2006a) questioned African exceptionalism and empirically demonstrated that they are not different. However, these analyses are inattentive to the impact of regime type and electoral conduct on strategic coordination.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We graphically present these interaction effects. We indicate significance at the 95% level with asterisks (Brambor et al, 2006a).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The most important determinant of legislative elections is the number of candidates in presidential ones and not the closeness of the two per se. Thus, contrary to standard practices (Brambor et al, 2006a;Cox, 1997), we exclude it from the analysis. 21 Below we present the fully specified regression model:…”

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confidence: 99%

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Mylonas

Roussias

2007

Comparative Political Studies

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The effects of electoral systems have been tested recently in Africa, raising several questions: Are the systematic effects of electoral rules the same across regime types? Does the conduct of elections affect the process of strategic coordination between voters and parties? The literature to date has not considered these issues and also analyzes elections in settings where a crucial set of its assumptions are clearly violated. The authors argue that the mechanism of strategic coordination only operates in democracies that hold free and fair elections, and they exhibit the ways it is violated outside of this domain. They compile a new data set on sub-Saharan African elections and show that the interaction of electoral rules and ethnopolitical cleavages predicts the number of parties only in democratic settings, failing to produce substantive effects in nondemocratic ones.

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confidence: 87%

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confidence: 99%

“…We graphically present these interaction effects. We indicate significance at the 95% level with asterisks (Brambor et al, 2006a).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Mylonas

Roussias

2007

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“…Much of the research on African party systems has focused on the degree to which the patterns of party system fragmentation in Africa are different-that is, the degree to which the effects of institutions and social cleavages on African party systems match the findings of previous research. For instance, some work (Mozaffar, Scarritt, and Galaich, 2003; though see also Brambor, Clark, and Golder, 2007a) has argued that institutions, ethnic cleavages, and the interaction between the two types of variables do not have the same effects on party system fragmentation as those seen in previous research focusing on non-African party systems.…”

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The organizational ecology of ethnic cleavages: The nonlinear effects of ethnic diversity on party system fragmentation

Raymond

2015

Electoral Studies

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This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Electoral Studies. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Electoral Studies, [VOL 37, March 2015] doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2014 General rights Copyright for the publications made accessible via the Queen's University Belfast Research Portal is retained by the author(s) and / or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing these publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights. AbstractThe conventional wisdom regarding party system fragmentation assumes that the effects of electoral systems and social cleavages are linear. However, recent work applying organizational ecology theories to the study of party systems has challenged the degree to which electoral system effects are linear. This paper applies such concepts to the study of social cleavages. Drawing from theories of organizational ecology and the experience of many ethnically diverse African party systems, I argue that the effects of ethnic diversity are nonlinear, with party system fragmentation increasing until reaching moderate levels of diversity before declining as diversity reaches extreme values. Examining this argument cross-nationally, the results show that accounting for nonlinearity in ethnic diversity effects significantly improves model fit.1

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Governance, foreign aid, and Chinese foreign direct investment

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Alon

2022

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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This article examines how Chinese foreign aid interacts with the quality of the host country's governance in shaping Chinese state-owned enterprises' (CSOEs') foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa. By analyzing the firm-level greenfield FDI data of CSOEs between 2003 and 2014 and distinguishing between China's official development assistance and less concessional forms of Chinese foreign aid, we reveal two main findings. First, the quality of the host country's governance negatively affects CSOEs' FDI. Second, other official aid and loans from China negatively moderate the relationship between the quality of the host country's governance and FDI by CSOEs. Specifically, the tendency for CSOEs to invest in locations with weak governance increases when their investments are integrated with less concessional forms of Chinese foreign aid in the form of other official flows and loans. Our results are robust to alternative measures of the governance and different methodological approaches. The article challenges the traditional notion of institutional theory which assumes a positive relationship between governance quality and FDI attraction.

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Are African party systems different?

Cited by 62 publications

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When Do Votes Count?

When Do Votes Count?

The organizational ecology of ethnic cleavages: The nonlinear effects of ethnic diversity on party system fragmentation

Governance, foreign aid, and Chinese foreign direct investment

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