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Nationalized incumbents and regional challengers: Opposition- and incumbent-party nationalization in Africa

In English

Författare

  • Michael Wahman

Summary, in English

The African party literature, especially research prescribing to the long-dominant ethnic voting thesis, has asserted that African party systems exhibit low levels of party nationalization. However, systematic research on nationalization across parties and party systems is still lacking. This study argues that the prospects for building nationalized parties vary substantially between incumbent and opposition parties. Incumbent parties, with their access to state resources, have been successful in creating nationwide operations, even in countries where geographical factors have been unfavorable and where ethnic fractionalization is high. The analysis utilizes a new data set of disaggregate election results for 26 African countries to calculate nationalization scores for 77 parties and study the correlates of party nationalization. The results show that factors like ethnic fractionalization, the size of the geographical area, and urbanization affect party nationalization, but only in the case of opposition parties. Incumbent parties, on the other hand, generally remain nationalized despite unfavorable structural conditions.

Publiceringsår

2017

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

309-322

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Party Politics

Volym

23

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

SAGE Publications

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • parties
  • opposition
  • nationalization
  • incumbent
  • Africa

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1460-3683