1st Edition
Party Systems in Young Democracies Varieties of institutionalization in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Edalina Rodrigues Sanches
Copyright 2018
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
27 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
27 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Institutionalization has become a paramount concept to compare party systems in regions spanned by the third wave of democratization. Based on raw electoral data from 30 sub-Saharan African countries observed between 1966 and 2016, this text explores the causes and mechanisms of Party System Institutionalization (PSI) and its relationship with the processes of mobilization and... Read more
1. Introduction: Researching Party System Institutionalization 2. Varieties of Party System Institutionalization 3. Explaining Diversity: An Eclectic Analysis of Party System Institutionalization 4. Cape Verde: An Adequately Institutionalized Party System 5. Zambia: An Inadequately Institutionalized Party System 6. Mozambique: An Overinstitutionalized Party System 7. Conclusion: Converging Trends of Party System Development? Africa from a Comparative Perspective
Biography
Edalina Rodrigues Sanches is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lisbon and the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is also a guest Assistant Professor at University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal.
