Presidentialism and clientelism in Africa's emerging party systems

By Nicolas van de Walle. 2003

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Subfields: Development, Sociology and Political Science

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The Politics of Effective Foreign Aid (2010, background): “This suggests that the poor record of IMF aid in Africa might be the result of poorly enforced conditionality rather than the use of the wrong policy conditions (Vreeland 2003).”
Democracy and education spending in Africa (2005, background): “…caution against the assumption that political reform in African countries would necessarily result in fundamental changes in economic policies.2 Van de Walle (2003, 2001) argues that democratization in Africa has not yet resulted in a fundamental shift in the types of political pressures that…”
Attribution and Accountability: Voting for Roads in Ghana (2015, background): “18 See lemarchand 1988; lewis 1998; van de Walle 2003; bratton 2008; Kramon 2009.”
Segregation, Ethnic Favoritism, and the Strategic Targeting of Local Public Goods (2018, background): “As cabinet positions are typically allocated to elites who can deliver the support of their ethnic community, MPs have incentives to maintain strong support among their coethnics to enhance their pre- and postelection bargaining position (van de Walle, 2003).”
Promoting the informal sector as a source of gainful employment in developing countries: insights from Ghana (2007, background): “With more and more SSA countries moving towards a system of multi-party democracy (Van de Walle, 2003; Wiseman, 1998) it was felt that the Ghanaian experience might offer useful insights to other democratizing nations looking to promote the informal sector.”
Political Parties and Uncertainty in Developing Democracies (2013, background): “…parties are less reliant on programmatic appeals (Keefer, 2007; Kitschelt, Hawkins, Luna, Rosas, & Zechmeister, 2010; Kitschelt, Mansfeldova, Markowski, & Tóka, 1999; van de Walle, 2003), and party systems are not always organized along salient social cleavages (e.g., Dix, 1989; Kitschelt, 1992).”