Status-quo or Grievance Coalitions: The Logic of Cross-ethnic Campaign Appeals in Africa’s Highly Diverse States
dc.contributor.author | Gadjanova, E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-09T09:36:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-09-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper explains how presidential candidates in Africa’s highly diverse states appeal across ethnic lines when ethnic identities are salient, but broader support is needed to win elections. I argue that election campaigns are much more bottom-up and salience-oriented than current theories allow and draw on the analysis of custom data of campaign appeals in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda, as well as interviews with party strategists and campaign operatives in Ghana and Kenya to demonstrate clear patterns in presidential candidates’ cross-ethnic outreach. Where ethnic salience is high, incumbents offer material incentives and targeted transfers to placate supporters, challengers fan grievances to split incumbents’ coalitions, and also-rans stress unity and valence issues in the hope of joining the winner. The research contributes to our understanding of parties’ mobilization strategies in Africa and further clarifies where and how ethnic divisions are politicized in elections in plural societies. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Fritz Thyssen Foundation | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 9 September 2020 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0010414020957683 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/121855 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. Open access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | |
dc.title | Status-quo or Grievance Coalitions: The Logic of Cross-ethnic Campaign Appeals in Africa’s Highly Diverse States | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-09T09:36:37Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0010-4140 | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Comparative Political Studies | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-07-07 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-07-07 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-07-08T17:13:54Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-09-24T14:51:58Z | |
refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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