Refresh

0 Hits

Goeke

Regulierungen des Parteiwechsels in Afrika

Eine vergleichende Untersuchung zum Institutional Engineering
Nomos,  2015, 822 Pages

ISBN 978-3-8487-2101-6


Our continuation service: You will receive new series titles or new editions automatically and without obligation to purchase. If you wish to do so, you can mark it in the shopping cart.

The work is part of the series Comparative Politics – Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (Volume 5)
148,00 € incl. VAT
Also available as eBook
148,00 € incl. VAT
Available
Add to shopping cart
Add to notepad
 Further options for registered users

englischThe study deals with formal regulations of party switching in Sub-Saharan Africa. Many countries take a critical stance towards party switching because it is considered to weaken political parties and to endanger political stability and the legitimacy of democracy. The aim of the study is to examine reasons for their implementation by using QCA and to focus on their role as means of institutional engineering by estimating their impact on party system development.

The book also deals with case studies on Botswana, South Africa, Malawi and Lesotho. While Botswana has not adopted a regulation so far, Lesotho has introduced one in the course of a electoral reform in 2002. In South Africa party switching was permitted in a unique manner between 2002 and 2007. After increasing public criticism party switching was subsequently abolished in 2009. In Malawi the regulation has become the subject of controversial debate and political power struggles over the last twenty years.

»...leistet einen wichtigen Beitrag zu der allmählich an Fahrt aufnehmenden Bewegung, afrikanische Politik als Forschungssujet zu "entexotisieren" und politische Phänomene mit den gleichen politikwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven und Methoden zu untersuchen wie im Westen... für zu afrikanischer Politik Forschende zu empfehlen, da es mit Verve ein spannendes und bislang unterbelichtetes Forschungsfeld öffnet und einen großen Reichtum an originellem empirischem Material enthält.«
Ole Frahm, PVS 2018, 787-789