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Varieties of Partisan Dominance in Sub-Saharan Africa

de Melo Justo, Vinícius
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2677-0946
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1689763524883581

Abstract Details

2023, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Political Science.
Dominant parties are very common around the world, particularly in developing countries. Much research has focused on how they can be problematic for democratic development, as well as some works dedicated to understanding how they lose their grasp on power. However, there is not as much scholarship devoted to analyzing varieties of partisan dominance. This dissertation proposes a framework that separates dominance into three modes: electoral dominance, organizational dominance, and social dominance. Three chapters comprise the investigation. In the first, I conceptualize these three modes of dominance and build a measurement for each of them focusing on dominant parties in Sub-Saharan Africa since 1960 until now. This measurement is constructed with several variables taken from the V-Dem and V-Party projects, arriving at a classification for each dominant party in the region per electoral cycle. In the second, I utilize the classification as subsidy to understand the association between different varieties of partisan dominance and political stability, by leveraging data from the ACLED project, as well as public opinion surveys from the Afrobarometer. In the final chapter, I select three dominant parties from Southern Africa for detailed case studies, to further explore how all three modes of partisan dominance interact with political stability.
Marcus Kurtz (Advisor)
Jan Pierskalla (Committee Member)
Amanda Robinson (Committee Member)
114 p.
African Studies; Political Science
dominant parties; African politics; political order; political parties

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  • de Melo Justo, V. (2023). Varieties of Partisan Dominance in Sub-Saharan Africa [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1689763524883581

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • de Melo Justo, Vinícius. Varieties of Partisan Dominance in Sub-Saharan Africa. 2023. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1689763524883581.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • de Melo Justo, Vinícius. "Varieties of Partisan Dominance in Sub-Saharan Africa." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1689763524883581

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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