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      • Sebastian Elischer, Leuphana University Lüneberg, and German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2014
      09 September 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139519755
      9781107033467
      9781107620445
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519755
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 334 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 336 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, African Government, Politics and Policy
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    Area Studies, African Studies, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, African Government, Politics and Policy
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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.

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