ISBN:
9783531191409
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (307p. 33 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Osei, Anja Party-voter linkage in Africa
DDC:
320
Keywords:
Social sciences
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Social Sciences
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Social sciences
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Ghana
;
Senegal
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Partei
;
Wähler
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Politische Mobilisierung
;
Internationaler Vergleich
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Ghana
;
Senegal
;
Partei
;
Wähler
;
Politische Mobilisierung
;
Internationaler Vergleich
Abstract:
Anja Osei
Abstract:
Parties in Africa are often described as organisationally and programmatically weak. On the other hand, they mobilise substantial numbers of voters at election time. This contradiction provokes an interesting question: How do political parties in Africa relate to the society? How do they mobilise their voters and sympathisers, and which strategies do they employ? Anja Osei analyses how parties in Ghana and Senegal adapt to their local context by employing locally embedded strategies. Anja Osei is currently working at the Institute of International Politics and Conflict Studies in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz.
Description / Table of Contents:
Content; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: The Purpose of the Study; 2 Conceptual Problems of Party Research in Africa; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Party Research in Africa: Findings and Problems; 2.3 New Challenges: Neo-democracies and Party Change; 2.4 Democratisation, Hybridisation and Political Parties; 2.5 African Studies between Universalism and Exceptionalism; 2.5.1 Research Paradigms in African Studies; 2.5.2 Universalism; 2.5.3 Exceptionalism; 2.5.4 Spatiality, Discourse and Power Relations; 3 Research Design and Methodology
Description / Table of Contents:
3.1 Searching for a Framework of Analysis3.2 Theoretical Guideline: the Concept of Linkage; 3.3 Case selection and Comparative Design; 3.3.1 The Comparative Method: Advantages and Limitations; 3.3.2 The Most Different Systems Design; 3.4 Data Collection; 3.4.1 Collection of Qualitative Data; 3.4.2 Collection of Quantitative Data; 4 Background: Party Formation in Africa; 4.1 Party Formation at Independence; 4.2 Single-party States; 4.3 Third Wave Parties; 5 Democracy, the State and Political Parties in Africa Today; 5.1 Political Parties and Clientelism; 5.2 Political Parties and Ethnicity
Description / Table of Contents:
5.3 Political Parties and the Neopatrimonial State6 Political Parties in Ghana; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Party System, Legal and Institutional Framework; 6.2.1 Party System; 6.2.2 Legal and Institutional Framework; 6.3 The Evolution of Political Parties in Ghana; 6.3.1 Independence and First Republic; 6.3.2 Political Parties in the Second Republic; 6.3.3 Third Republic and PNDC Rule; 6.3.4 Political Parties in the Fourth Republic; 6.4 Voting Patterns in Ghana; 6.4.1 Introduction; 6.4.2 The Ethnic Factor; 6.4.3 Regionalism; 6.4.4 Party traditions; 6.4.5 Socioeconomic Factors; 6.4.6 Personalism
Description / Table of Contents:
6.4.7 Conclusion6.5 Party Organisation; 6.5.1 Introduction; 6.5.2 NPP; 6.5.3 NDC; 6.5.4 PNC; 6.6 Ideological Orientations; 6.6.1 Introduction; 6.6.2 NPP; 6.6.3 NDC; 6.6.4 PNC; 6.7 Party Activities; 6.8 Voters' Attitudes in Ghana; 6.9 Conclusion; 7 Political Parties in Senegal; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Party System, Legal and Institutional Framework; 7.2.1 Party System; 7.2.2 Legal and Institutional Framework; 7.3 The Evolution of Political Parties in Senegal; 7.3.1 Independence and the Era Senghor; 7.3.2 Political Parties under Abdou Diouf; 7.3.3 Political Parties under Abdoulaye Wade
Description / Table of Contents:
7.4 Voting Patterns7.4.1 Introduction; 7.4.2 Regional Distribution of Party Support; 7.4.3 Ethnicity; 7.4.4 Sociostructure; 7.4.5 Sufi Brotherhoods and Party Support; 7.4.6 Personalism; 7.4.7 Conclusion; 7.5 Party Organisation; 7.5.1 Introduction; 7.5.2 PDS; 7.5.3 PS; 7.5.4 AFP; 7.6 Ideological Orientations; 7.6.1 Introduction; 7.6.2 PDS; 7.6.3 PS; 7.6.4 AFP; 7.7 Activities; 7.8 Voters' Attitudes in Senegal; 7.9 Conclusion; 8 Political Parties in Ghana and Senegal in a Comparative View; 8.1 Overview; 8.2 Comparing Parties; 8.3 Comparing Social Anchorage; 8.4 Comparing Countries
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Linkage Strategies in a Comparative View
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-531-19140-9
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