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Foreign Aid and Democratization in Africa
Danielle Resnick In just a little over a month, policy makers will converge in Busan, South Korea for the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness...
Democratization Economic assistance and foreign aid Government accountabilityBlog
Africa's Youth: A New Vanguard for Democracy?
Danielle Resnick The victory of the opposition party, the Patriotic Front (PF), in Zambia’s presidential elections this month heralds a new era in that country’s democracy...
Democracy Unemployment VotingWorking Paper
The Political Participation of Africa’s Youth: Turnout, Partisanship, and ProtestThe youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa...
Democracy Unemployment VotingWorking Paper
Can a Populist Political Party Bear the Risk of Granting Complete Property Rights?: Electoral outcomes of Mexico’s second land reformThe Mexican land reform, one of the most sweeping in the world, proceeded in two steps: it granted peasants highly incomplete property rights on more than half of the Mexican territory starting in 1914, creating strong economic and political dependen...
Land tenure Political science VotingWorking Paper
Are Electoral Coalitions Harmful for Democratic Consolidation in Africa?Electoral coalitions are becoming increasingly popular among opposition parties in Africa because they offer many advantages with respect to reducing party fragmentation and increasing incumbent turnovers...
Political science Strategic planning VotingJournal Article
Political participation of Africa’s youth: Turnout, partisanship and protestThe youth have long represented an important constituency for electoral mobilization in Africa...
Democracy Unemployment VotingWorking Paper
Populist Strategies in African DemocraciesDrawing on insights from Latin America, this paper examines the factors that contributed to the use of populist strategies by political parties during recent presidential elections in Kenya, South Africa, and Zambia...
Economic development Political science Populism