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Party-Voter Linkage in Africa: Ghana and Senegal in Comparative Perspective

By Anja Osei (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Year
2012
ISBN
978-3-531-18612-2, 978-3-531-19140-9
DOI
10.1007/978-3-531-19140-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2082076 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
307\307
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-22 00:00:28
Comparative Politics; Political Sciencegeneral

Description

Parties in Africa are often described as organisationally and programmatically weak. On the other hand, they mobilise substantial numbers of voters at election time. This contradiction provokes an interesting question: How do political parties in Africa relate to the society? How do they mobilise their voters and sympathisers, and which strategies do they employ? Anja Osei analyses how parties in Ghana and Senegal adapt to their local context by employing locally embedded strategies.

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