The puzzle of African party systems

Party Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 399-421

  Mozaffar, Shaheen ^a   Scarritt, James R ^b  

^a BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Institutional legacies; Party system fragmentation; Party system volatility; Strategic choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644474737     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068805053210     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Aldrich, John (1995) Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
2. Bielasiak, Jack (2002) 'The Institutionalization of Electoral and Party Systems in Postcommunist States', Comparative Politics 34: 189-210.
3. Bratton, Michael and Nicolas van de Walle (1997) Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transformation in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press.
4. Collier, Ruth Berins (1982) Regimes in Tropical Africa: Changing Forms of Supremacy, 1945-1975. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
5. Coppedge, Michael (1998) The Dynamic Diversity of Latin American Party Systems', Party Politics 4: 547-68.
6. Cox, Gary W. (1997) Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
7. Cox, Gary W. and Mathew McCubbins (1993) Legislative Leviathan: Party Government in the House. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
8. Gallagher, Michael (1991) 'Proportionality, Disproportionality, and Electoral Systems', Electoral Studies 10: 333-51.
9. Geddes, Barbara (2003) 'The Development of Party systems in Latin America'. Mimeo. Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans (January).
10. Gurr, Ted Robert (1993) Minorities at Risk. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace.
11. Laakso, Markku and Rein Taagepera (1979) ' "Effective" Number of Parties: A Measure with Application to Western Europe', Comparative Political Studies 12: 3-27.
12. Lijphart, Arend (1994) Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990. New York: Oxford University Press.
13. Lipset, Seymour Martin and Stein Rokkan (1967) 'Cleavage Structures, Party Systems, and Voter Alignments: An Introduction', in Seymour Martin Lipset and Stein Rokkan (eds) Party Systems and Voter Alignments, pp. 1-64. New York: Free Press.
14. Mainwaring, Scott (1998) 'Electoral Volatility in Brazil', Party Politics 4: 523-45.
15. Mozaffar, Shaheen (forthcoming) 'Party, Ethnicity and Democratization in Africa', in Richard Katz and William Crotty (eds) Handbook of Political Parties. London: Sage.
16. Mozaffar, Shaheen (2004) 'Africa: Electoral Systems in Emerging Democracies', in Josep Colomer (ed.) The Handbook of Electoral Systems Choice, pp. 419-39. New York: Palgrave
17. Mozaffar, Shaheen and Richard Vengroff (2002) 'A "Whole System" Approach to the Choice of Electoral Rules in Democratizing Countries: Senegal in Comparative Perspective', Electoral Studies 21: 601-16.
18. Mozaffar, Shaheen, James R. Scarritt and Glen Galaich (2003) 'Electoral Institutions, Ethnopolitical Cleavages, and Party Systems in Africa's Emerging Democracies', American Political Science Review 97: 379-90.
19. Ninsin, Kwame (1993) Political Parties and Democracy in Ghana's Fourth Republic. Accra: Woeli Publishing Services.
20. Pedersen, Mogens N. (1983) 'Changing Patterns of Electoral Volatility in European Party Systems, 1948-1977: Explorations in Explanations', in Hans Daalder and Peter Mair (eds) Western European Party Systems: Continuity and Change, pp. 29-66. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
21. Sartori, Giovanni (1994) Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives, and Outcomes. New York: Columbia University Press.
22. Scarritt, James R. (2004) 'The Strategic Choice of Multiethnic Parties in Zambia's Dominant and Personalist Party System'. Mimeo. University of Colorado at Boulder, CO.
23. Scarritt, James R. and Shaheen Mozaffar (1999) 'The Specification of Ethnic Cleavages and Ethnopolitical Groups for the Analysis of Democratic Competition in Contemporary Africa', Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 5: 82-117.
24. Taagepera, Rein and Matthew Soberg Shugart (1989) Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
25. Vengroff, Richard (1993) 'Governance and the Transition to Democracy: Political Parties and the Party System in Mali', Journal of Modern African Studies 31: 541-62.
26. Vengroff, Richard (1994) 'The Impact of the Electoral System on the Transition to Democracy in Africa: The Case of Mali', Electoral Studies 13: 29-37.