LEADER 03314nam 22006132 450 001 9910806833503321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-06563-1 010 $a1-139-51975-1 010 $a1-107-05598-9 010 $a1-107-05954-2 010 $a1-107-05822-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000057242 035 $a(EBL)1182976 035 $a(OCoLC)862939878 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001041257 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12458927 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001041257 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11043926 035 $a(PQKB)11187315 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139519755 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1182976 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1182976 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10795385 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL546144 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000057242 100 $a20141103d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPolitical parties in Africa $eethnicity and party formation /$fSebastian Elischer$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xx, 319 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-62044-9 311 $a1-107-03346-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $g1.$tComparative politics and political parties in Africa --$g2.$tA new framework of comparison for political parties --$g3.$tKenya : the ubiquity of ethnic parties --$g4.$tNamibia : the dominance of nonethnic parties --$g5.$tGhana : the ubiquity of nonethnic parties --$g6.$tThe diversity of African party politics --$g7.$tExplaining the formation of nonethnic parties --$tConclusion : political parties in Africa. 330 $aThis book examines the effects of ethnicity on party politics in sub-Saharan Africa. Sebastian Elischer analyzes political parties in Ghana, Kenya and Namibia in detail, and provides a preliminary analysis of parties in seven other countries including Tanzania, Botswana, Senegal, Zambia, Malawi, Burkina Faso and Benin. Elischer finds that five party types exist: the mono-ethnic, the ethnic alliance, the catch-all, the programmatic, and the personalistic party. He uses these party types to show that the African political landscape is considerably more diverse than conventionally assumed. Whereas ethnic parties dominate in some countries, non-ethnic parties have become the norm in others. This study also finds a correlation between a country's ethnic make-up and the salience of political ethnicity: countries with a core ethnic group are prone to form non-ethnic parties. In countries lacking a core ethnic group, ethnic parties constitute the norm. 606 $aPolitical parties$zAfrica 606 $aEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects 607 $aAfrica$xEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aPolitical parties 615 0$aEthnic relations$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a324.2096 700 $aElischer$b Sebastian$f1979-$01676015 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910806833503321 996 $aPolitical parties in Africa$94041895 997 $aUNINA