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Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa
This book investigates why seemingly similar African countries developed very different forms of democratic party systems.
From Pews to Politics
Using Christianity in Africa, this book demonstrates that cultural influences, specifically religious sermons, can impact political participation.
Political Violence in Kenya
An analysis of land and natural resource conflict as a source of political violence, focusing on election violence in Kenya.
Institutions and Democracy in Africa
Offers new research on the vital importance of institutions, such as presidential term-limits in the African democratisation processes.
Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World
A comparative study of the role of political parties and movements in the founding and survival of developing world democracies.
From Pews to Politics
Does religion influence political participation? This book takes up this pressing debate using Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa as its empirical base to demonstrate that religious teachings communicated in sermons can influence both the degree and the form of citizens' political participation. McClendon and Riedl document some of the current diversity of sermon content in contemporary Christian houses of worship and then use a combination of laboratory experiments, observational survey data, focus groups, and case comparisons in Zambia, Uganda, and Kenya to interrogate the impact of sermon exposure on political participation and the longevity of that impact. Pews to Politics in Africa leverages the pluralism of sermons in sub-Saharan Africa to gain insight into the content of cultural influences and their consequences for how ordinary citizens participate in politics.
Party Systems in Latin America
This book generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems and contributes richly to major theoretical debates about party systems and democracy.
The Promise of Power
Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies while others have slid into instability and authoritarianism? To address this classic question at the center of policy and academic debates, The Promise of Power investigates a striking puzzle: why, upon the 1947 Partition of British India, was India able to establish a stable democracy while Pakistan created an unstable autocracy? Drawing on interviews, colonial correspondence, and early government records to document the genesis of two of the twentieth century's most celebrated independence movements, Maya Tudor refutes the prevailing notion that a country's democratization prospects can be directly attri...
Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective
This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the democratising and hybrid regimes of Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine, it seeks to understand how presidents who lack single party legislative majorities build and manage cross-party support in legislative assemblies. It develops a framework for analysing this phenomenon, and blends data from MP surveys, detailed case studies, and wider legislative and political contexts, to analyse systematically the tools that presidents deploy to manage their coalitions. The authors ...
Electoral Politics and Africa's Urban Transition
Explores the political impacts of ethnic diversity and the growth of the middle class in urban Africa.
