Do or Die Politics: Psycho-Demographic Influence on Attitude towards Election Rigging in Ekiti State, Nigeria

Omowumi, Awosusi Omojola; Sunday, Fasanmi Samuel

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.04.391

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“…Older respondents had greater interest in electoral integrity than younger respondents. Associations based on age significantly predicted attitudes toward election-rigging among the electors questioned (Awossui and Fasanmi, 2011).…”

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“…Associations between loci of control, age, sex, marital status, years of political experience and literacy levels significantly and jointly predict attitudes toward election-rigging among TG 11,2 electors (Awossui and Fasanmi, 2011). Collier and Vicente (2012) hypothesized that strong ethnic allegiances created a greater incentive to undertake violent intimidation and that natural resources and term limits determined the degree of incumbency advantage that would then be able to withstand precise empirical scrutiny.…”

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“…Electoral integrity in Pakistan has been blemished by electoral malpractices whether its regimes have been de facto or de jure (Muhammad, 2012). Pre-rigging, polling-day rigging, post-rigging, socioeconomic status and vote-casting perceptions are all factors that are associated with electoral integrity (Schedler, 2002;Lehoucq, 2003;Awossui and Fasanmi, 2011). However, the focus of rigging in Pakistan has tended to tilt toward either polling-day rigging or post-rigging (Muhammad, 2012).…”

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Role of types of electoral rigging, socio-economic status, politics and voting behavior in the formation of attitudes toward electoral integrity

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Ullah

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Purpose This study aims to examine the associations between socioeconomic status, types of rigging (pre- polling-day and post-), politics and voting behavior, vote casting and perceptions of rigging in Pakistan’s most recent elections, and attitudes toward electoral integrity. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from students at three different universities. In all, 748 units of analysis (488 male and 260 female) recorded their responses by means of a self-structured questionnaire. Linear regression was applied to measure the associations between variables, and the reliability and validity of the scales were tested. Findings A significant relationship was found between pre-poll rigging, post-poll rigging, politics and voting behavior, socioeconomic characteristics (i.e. age, education, father’s education, background or place of residence and monthly household incomes), the perception of rigging in the last elections and attitudes toward electoral integrity. Practical implications Pakistan’s history has been blemished by electoral malpractices during both de facto and de jure regimes. Attention has formerly been paid to either polling-day or post-election rigging. The relationship of electoral integrity with different factors explored in this study have usually been ignored or overlooked. The findings of this study would help policy-makers, youth experts and academicians to reorient their behaviors to strengthen political stability, the rule of law and the continuation of democracy via their participation in the system. Originality/value To the researchers’ best knowledge, there has not been a single peer-reviewed study of Pakistan which has explored the associations between the variables examined for this study. The main academic challenge the researchers faced was to find a standardized and contextualized scale or tool to explore how different types of vote-rigging affected attitudes toward electoral integrity. Thus, the structured scales for types of rigging and electoral integrity developed here would be useful for future studies in the field of electoral integrity in democratic countries.

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Electoral Violence in Nigeria: Insights From Off-Cycle Subnational Elections

Omotola

Oyewole

2023

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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There is a popular assumption that off-cycle subnational elections should be better governed and more peaceful than general elections. This position is premised on the notion that limited geographical and demographical scope of such elections offers the national electoral body, security agencies and other key actors in electoral governance the opportunities to concentrate resources and energies in a given jurisdiction for maximum efficiencies. These have encouraged advocacy to unbundle the Electoral Management Body, namely the Independent National Electoral Commission by decentralising electoral governance. However, this assumption has not been subjected to adequate academic scrutiny. This study, therefore, examines comparatively, records of violence in off-cycle subnational elections conducted in Edo, Kogi and Ondo States between 2019 and 2020, and those of Nigeria’s 2019 general elections. The study is descriptive by design, with data largely extracted from Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project and analysed using mixed method.

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Ideologies on Display: A Critical Analysis of First-Term Gubernatorial Inaugural Speeches in Nigeria

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2024

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The interest of scholars in political discourse has always been drawn to the dynamics of inaugural speeches and the implicit/explicit portrayal of ideologies. Extant studies have explored discourse patterns, thematic orientations, power relations, rhetorical devices, ideologies, and other issues in inaugural speeches. This paper offers a holistic investigation of the recurring ideologies in first-term gubernatorial inaugural speeches across Nigeria. The data for the study are drawn from 25 inaugural speeches made between 2014 and 2015 across the 36 states in Nigeria. The source of the data is Inaugural Speeches: President and Governors of Nigeria (2014-2017). Through the theoretical lens of van Dijk’s approach to critical discourse analysis, four ideologies were identified in the speeches. These manifest ideologies in the speeches are idealistic ideology, theistic ideology, messianic ideology, and democratic ideology. They are found to drive the establishment of the authority of the governors through the process of sensitizing the citizens about the governor’s interpretation of the election, the presentation of novel principles and perspectives that the new administration would imbibe, and how they would inform governance for the tenure. The reoccurring strategies actualized to project the ideologies are consensus, polarization, lexicalization, presupposition, and metaphors.

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Do or Die Politics: Psycho-Demographic Influence on Attitude towards Election Rigging in Ekiti State, Nigeria

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Role of types of electoral rigging, socio-economic status, politics and voting behavior in the formation of attitudes toward electoral integrity

Role of types of electoral rigging, socio-economic status, politics and voting behavior in the formation of attitudes toward electoral integrity

Electoral Violence in Nigeria: Insights From Off-Cycle Subnational Elections

Ideologies on Display: A Critical Analysis of First-Term Gubernatorial Inaugural Speeches in Nigeria

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