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

• Main Author: Osei, Anja (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012.
• Subjects: Political science.; Comparative politics.; Political Science and International Relations.; Comparative Politics.; Political Science.

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 th...

Table of Contents:

• Conceptual Problems of Party Research in Africa
• Research Design and Methodology
• Background: Party Formation in Africa
• Democracy, the State and Political Parties in Africa Today
• Political Parties in Ghana
• Political Parties in Senegal
• Political Parties in Ghana and Senegal in a Comparative View
• Linkage Strategies in a Comparative View.