Racial, Ethnic or Rational Voters? Splitting Tickets in South Africa

McLaughlin, Eric S.

doi:10.1080/02589340802113030

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“…The World Bank estimates that, in the 2008-2015 period, South Africa's top 1% owned approximately 71% of all assets, while the bottom 60 percent owned only 7%, and a full 40% of South Africans live below the national lower-bound poverty line of (roughly) 52 USD per person per month (Sulla and Zikhali, 2018). Apartheid also created profound spatial inequality (Christopher, 1994(Christopher, , 2002, the social and political implications of which persist decades after its fall (Mattes and Piombo, 2001;Ferree, 2006;McLaughlin, 2007;Mclaughlin, 2008;Ferree, 2010).…”

Section: The South African Contextmentioning

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Local exposure to inequality among the poor increases support for taxing the rich

Sands¹,

Kadt²

2019

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How does local economic inequality affect the preferences and behaviors of the poor? We present a placebo-controlled field experiment conducted in Soweto, South Africa, that randomly varies exposure to inequality in low socio-economic settings. We find that willingness to sign a petition that calls for higher taxes on the wealthy increases in the presence of a high-status car. To probe the generality of the experimental finding, we combine a representative geo-referenced survey with neighborhood-level census-derived measures of local inequality, a proxy for direct encounters with tangible reminders of economic inequality. Observationally, exposure to inequality among the poor is associated with an increase in support for taxing the wealthy.

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Section: The South African Contextmentioning

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Local exposure to inequality among the poor increases support for taxing the rich

Sands¹,

Kadt²

2019

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“…Nigeria has, after two decades of uninterrupted civilian government, keyed into this global phenomenon. Though issues of clientelism, religion, class and ethnicity do certainly shape voter perceptions in African politics, as evidenced in Nigeria's six cycles of election since 1999, "other issues such as elite strategies, crosscutting cleavages, political ideology, government performance, opposition parties, candidates and key issues are also powerful determinants of voting intentions" (Mclaughlin, 2008;Basedau & Stroh, 2011). However, the dominance of primordial factors over other fundamental issues, in voting behaviour is worrisome in Nigeria.…”

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Ritual of Electoral Democracy, Growing Political Awareness and the Paradox of Contagious Scepticism

Omilusi¹

2022

APE

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As one of the pillars of democracy, election has an inescapably ritual dimension that periodically attracts political actors and thus, it has become a barometer to measure political behaviour across regions of the world. Nigeria has, after two decades of uninterrupted civilian dispensation, keyed into this global phenomenon. Although democracy has been the world’s predominant form of government in the last five decades and there has been broad global progress on many aspects of this type of government, conducting credible and transparent elections still remains a herculean task in many African countries. For instance, Nigeria’s troubled elections continually reflect the country’s lingering “do or die” politics, poor electoral management and institutionalised impunity, defying attempts at entrenching democratic norms. Consequently, there is a seeming shift from voter apathy to outright voter boycott in the country- the 2019 election recording the lowest turnout (35 per cent) since 1999. This decline has been difficult to explain in the context of an electorate’s seemingly better pre-election activism and political engagements. Hence, why large numbers of citizens continually refuse to participate in this most basic civic exercise should naturally provoke agitation. Employing secondary sources of data collection, this paper establishes the relationship between voter turnout and disenchantment and other underpinning variables associated with the Nigeria’s electoral democracy. It foregrounds how low voter turnout remains a stubborn challenge to Nigerian democracy and the imperativeness for post-election audit.

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Indirect colonial rule and the salience of ethnicity

McNamee

2019

World Development

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Racial, Ethnic or Rational Voters? Splitting Tickets in South Africa

Cited by 9 publications

References 31 publications

Local exposure to inequality among the poor increases support for taxing the rich

Local exposure to inequality among the poor increases support for taxing the rich

Ritual of Electoral Democracy, Growing Political Awareness and the Paradox of Contagious Scepticism

Indirect colonial rule and the salience of ethnicity

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