Electoral Institutions, Ethnopolitical Cleavages, and Party Systems in Africa's Emerging Democracies

By Shaheen Mozaffar, J. R. Scarritt, Glen Galaich. American Political Science Review, 2003

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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• Rehabilitating Duverger’s Theory (2006, methodology): “For example, a reanalysis of the examination of African party systems by Mozaffar et al. (2003) illustrates that almost none of their substantive conclusions regarding the effect of electoral institutions, presidential elections, and ethnic heterogeneity are supported by the data once their model…”
• Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? (2007, result): “…also parse the results in yet another way to reflect the fact that in Uganda, as elsewhere, ethnic categorization may take place on multiple levels (Mozaffar, Scarritt, and Galaich 2003; Posner 2005) and that we, the researchers, do not know ex ante what the salient dimension of cultural cleavage…”