Sector-based vote choice: A new approach to explaining core and swing voters in Africa
Autor: | Eun Kyung Kim |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Labour economics
De facto Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Swing 050701 cultural studies 0506 political science Core (game theory) Contingent vote Political economy Voting Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Economics Voting behavior media_common |
Zdroj: | International Area Studies Review. 21:28-50 |
ISSN: | 2049-1123 2233-8659 |
Popis: | This study examines economic components of the support base for each party in Ghana’s de facto two-party system. Most accounts of partisan voting in African democracies contend that some voters routinely support the same party because it rewards co-ethnics through patronage in the form of private and local community goods. A few recent studies have found that some voters vote retrospectively and sociotropically, rewarding or punishing the incumbent party on the basis of its overall performance in office. However, neither the ethno-clientelist account nor the performance assessment account addresses the possibility that African parties build their support bases around competing economic policy interests. Using a merged dataset from the Afrobarometer Survey Round 5 and district-level industrial employment and agricultural production data from Ghana, I find that it is economic interests by agricultural sub-sector that are highly predictive of parties’ issue-based platforms. Voters who do not share a common interest with any of the main parties’ key policies are most likely to switch party preferences election to election. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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