Author: Matthijs Bogaards
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131798143X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of democracy since the 1990s has been accompanied by the proliferation of bans on ethnic political parties. A majority of constitutions in the region explicitly prohibit political parties to organize on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, region and other socio-cultural attributes. More than a hundred political parties have been dissolved, suspended or denied registration on these grounds. This book documents the experience with ethnic party bans in Africa, traces its origins, examines its record, and answers the question whether ethnic party bans are an effective and legitimate instrument in the prevention of ethnic conflict. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.
Author: Sebastian Elischer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107067782
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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This book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in sub-Saharan Africa. Sebastian Elischer analyzes political parties in Ghana, Kenya and Namibia in detail, and provides a preliminary analysis of parties in seven other countries including Tanzania, Botswana, Senegal, Zambia, Malawi, Burkina Faso and Benin. Elischer finds that five party types exist: the mono-ethnic, the ethnic alliance, the catch-all, the programmatic, and the personalistic party. He uses these party types to show that the African political landscape is considerably more diverse than conventionally assumed. Whereas ethnic parties dominate in some countries, non-ethnic parties have become the norm in others. This study also finds a correlation between a country's ethnic make-up and the salience of political ethnicity: countries with a core ethnic group are prone to form non-ethnic parties. In countries lacking a core ethnic group, ethnic parties constitute the norm.
Author: Bruce Berman
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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"The politics of identity and ethnicity are resurgent. Civil society, whose revival was much vaunted, was riven by communal tensions particularly of ethnicity and religion. The contributors address questions such as: Why is ethnicity a political problem? How is the problem manifested? Which institutional models offer ways of ameliorating the challenges that ethnicity poses to democratic nation-building?".--BOOKJACKET.
Author: Okwudiba Nnoli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: Matthijs Bogaards
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317981448
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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In Sub-Saharan Africa, the spread of democracy since the 1990s has been accompanied by the proliferation of bans on ethnic political parties. A majority of constitutions in the region explicitly prohibit political parties to organize on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, region and other socio-cultural attributes. More than a hundred political parties have been dissolved, suspended or denied registration on these grounds. This book documents the experience with ethnic party bans in Africa, traces its origins, examines its record, and answers the question whether ethnic party bans are an effective and legitimate instrument in the prevention of ethnic conflict. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.
Author: Crawford Young
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Author: J. Piombo
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230623824
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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An investigation of post-apartheid South Africa, which is notable for a history of politicized ethnicity, a complicated network of ethnic groups and for an expectation that ethnic violence would follow the 1994 political transition that did not occur following democratization.
Author: Eghosa E. Osaghae
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Author: Okwudiba Nnoli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Author: E. Ike Udogu
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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