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Vokes, Richard; Wilkins, Sam

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“…21 Following the 2005 multiparty transition, NRM-aligned parliamentary candidates have continued to spend heavily, and most notably, to counter AQ5 ¶ other NRM-affiliated candidates. 22 Parliamentary aspirants first wage a costly battle in the NRM party primaries, discussed further below. 23 These primaries are nevertheless inconclusive as competition in the general elections is often fiercest between the official NRM flagbearers and NRMleaning Independents who lost the primaries.…”

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From the electoral battleground to the parliamentary arena: understanding intra-elite bargaining in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement

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2018

Elections in Museveni’s Uganda

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Section: Campaign Finance and Electoral Mobilizationmentioning

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From the electoral battleground to the parliamentary arena: understanding intra-elite bargaining in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement

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2018

Elections in Museveni’s Uganda

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From the electoral battleground to the parliamentary arena: understanding intra-elite bargaining in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement

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2016

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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Following the Uganda's 2005 multiparty transition, observers expected the country's legislaturean unusually assertive body by regional standardsto lose its bite, muzzled due to newly reinstated party disciplinary measures. This article explains whycontrary to these expectationsexecutive-legislative tensions persist and, more fundamentally, what this tells us about the nature of one-party and executive dominance in Uganda. Inspired by a comparative politics literature on parties as well as an older generation of Africanist scholarship, the analysis centres on the nexus linking political finance, party-building and legislative independence. The article argues that the legacy of Uganda's 'noparty' Movement system endures, perpetuated through the highly personalized and contentious nature of electoral mobilization. By failing to recentralize control of campaign finance, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) leadership has left parliamentary candidates largely to their own devices while undermining its own nascent efforts to ensure greater party institutionalization. The consequence of this failure to institutionalize the ruling party plays out in a more assertive legislature, where NRM MPswho form the overwhelming majorityfrequently rebel against the party line. Unable to enforce partisan discipline, Museveni is compelled to buy back legislators' support through executive patronage. While he generally succeeds in subduing Parliament, especially towards the end of a legislative term, this success is by no means automatic. As such, the Ugandan legislature is best understood as an arena for intra-elite bargaining, its independence contingent on the push-and-pull between President Museveni and unruly NRM MPs.

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From the electoral battleground to the parliamentary arena: understanding intra-elite bargaining in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement

From the electoral battleground to the parliamentary arena: understanding intra-elite bargaining in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement

From the electoral battleground to the parliamentary arena: understanding intra-elite bargaining in Uganda’s National Resistance Movement

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