Challenging dominance: the opposition, the coalition and the 2016 election in Uganda

Beardsworth, Nicole

doi:10.1080/17531055.2016.1272280

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“…Our results showed that because of this steep hierarchy in the public sector, several participants handed over their decision-making to the health experts. However, power dynamics between the government in central Uganda and other tribes in the north [ 46 ], as well as the political opposition in the west [ 47 ], increased distrust of the government’s mass vaccination program.…”

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Perceptions of yellow fever emergency mass vaccinations among vulnerable groups in Uganda: A qualitative study

Huebl,

Nnyombi,

Kihumuro

et al. 2024

PLoS Negl Trop Dis

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Background Yellow fever (YF), a mosquito-borne viral hemorrhagic fever, is endemic in Uganda and causes frequent outbreaks. A total of 1.6 million people were vaccinated during emergency mass immunization campaigns in 2011 and 2016. This study explored local perceptions of YF emergency mass immunization among vulnerable groups to inform future vaccination campaigns. Methodology In this qualitative study, we conducted 43 semi-structured interviews, 4 focus group discussions, and 10 expert interviews with 76 participants. Data were collected in six affected districts with emergency mass vaccination. We included vulnerable groups (people ≥ 65 years and pregnant women) who are typically excluded from YF vaccination except during mass immunization. Data analysis was conducted using grounded theory. Inductive coding was utilized, progressing through open, axial, and selective coding. Principal findings Participants relied on community sources for information about the YF mass vaccination. Information was disseminated door-to-door, in community spaces, during religious gatherings, and on the radio. However, most respondents had no knowledge of the vaccine, and it was unclear to them whether a booster dose was required. In addition, the simultaneous presidential election during the mass vaccination campaign led to suspicion and resistance to vaccination. The lack of reliable and trustworthy information and the politicization of vaccination campaigns reinforced mistrust of YF vaccines. Conclusions/significance People in remote areas affected by YF outbreaks rely on community sources of information. We therefore recommend improving health education, communication, and engagement through respected and trusted community members. Vaccination campaigns can never be seen as detached from political systems and power relations.

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Perceptions of yellow fever emergency mass vaccinations among vulnerable groups in Uganda: A qualitative study

Huebl,

Nnyombi,

Kihumuro

et al. 2024

PLoS Negl Trop Dis

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“…Predictable patterns of intimidation and misconduct were associated with an election that closely mirrored the 2006 result, with Museveni winning 61 percent to Besigye's 35 percent. As in previous elections, the failure of the opposition to forge a sustained coalition contributed to its inability to dent the NRM's position (Beardsworth 2017). Following his 2016 election victory, Museveni wasted no time in moving to amend the constitution to remove the age limit of presidential candidates, paving the way to run for a sixth term in 2021.…”

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Carrot, Stick and Statute: Elite Strategies and Contested Dominance in Kampala

2020

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Although Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement (NRM) has dominated Uganda's political scene for over three decades, the capital Kampala refuses to submit to the NRM's grip. As opposition activism in the city has become increasingly explosive, the ruling elite has developed a widening range of strategies to try and win urban support and constrain opposition. In this paper, we subject the NRM's strategies over the decade 2010-2020 to close scrutiny. We explore elite strategies pursued both from the 'top down', through legal and administrative manoeuvres and a ramping up of violent coercion, and from the 'bottom up', through attempts to build support among urban youth and infiltrate organisations in the urban informal transport sector. Although this evolving suite of strategies and tactics has met with some success in specific places and times, opposition has constantly resurfaced. Overall, efforts to entrench political dominance of the capital have repeatedly failed; yet challenges to the regime's dominance have also been unable to weaken it in any sustained way. We examine why each strategy for dominance has produced limited gains, arguing that together these strategies reproduced a situation of intensely contested control, in which no single group or elite can completely dominate the city.

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“…Elections will be nodal points of all these contradictions, exacerbated as they are by the shifting global political economy beyond such a small country's control. These elections will signpost modes characterised by 'low intensity democracy' or conflict sufficiently under international and regional radar to register meaningful intervention, or 'autocratisation' in which an active and consensual hegemony will simmer in perpetual contention instead of cooking up a new brew (Beardsworth, Siachiwena & Sishuwa 2022).…”

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Déjà vu with difference: A Gramscian interpretation of Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections and their pasts

Moore

2022

JAE

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Violence – ranging from barely detectable to genocidal to coups and post-coup mêlées – has marred most if not all of Zimbabwe’s elections since its 1980 birth. Electoral brutality has been almost normalised since Zimbabwe’s first meaningful opposition, coupled with the ‘fast track’ land reform-inspired crises, accompanied the millennium’s turn. This article suggests that elections are signposts of what Antonio Gramsci might have considered the balance of coercion and consent during the long interregna between colonialism and an uncertain end. Evidence from Zimbabwe’s 2023 election and its predecessors illustrates the changing techniques between the coercion/consent poles as ZANU-PF’s leaders gain and maintain power along the rocky road to an unknown destination.

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Challenging dominance: the opposition, the coalition and the 2016 election in Uganda

Cited by 8 publications

References 20 publications

Perceptions of yellow fever emergency mass vaccinations among vulnerable groups in Uganda: A qualitative study

Perceptions of yellow fever emergency mass vaccinations among vulnerable groups in Uganda: A qualitative study

Carrot, Stick and Statute: Elite Strategies and Contested Dominance in Kampala

Déjà vu with difference: A Gramscian interpretation of Zimbabwe’s 2023 elections and their pasts

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