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2009 Workshop Materials 2009 Workshop Materials

On this page you can access all materials for the 2009 Workshop on Elections and Democracy:

A.  WORKSHOP CALENDAR


B. WORKSHOP SYLLABUS

WEEK 1: Electoral Systems and Elections

 

 

Albertyn, Catherine. 2003. “Contesting Democracy: HIV/AIDS and the Achievement of Gender Equality in South Africa,” Feminist Studies. 29: 595-615.

Abrahams, Yvette. 2009. “Womanist Notes Towards Living in the “New” South Africa II,” International Resource Network Outliers, a Collection of Essays and Creative Writing on Sexuality in Africa 2 (spring).

Cohen, Cathy. 2004. Deviance as Resistance: A New Research Agenda for the Study of Black Politics,” Du Bois Review 1: 27–45.

Collier, Paul. 2009. Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places. New York: HarperCollins Publishers. [Introduction and Chapter 1]

Hayes, Jarrod. 2001. “Queer Resistance to (Neo-)colonialism in Algeria.” Postcolonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersections. Ed. John C. Hawley. State University of New York Press, 79–97.

Joseph, Richard. 2008. “Challenges of a ‘Frontier’ Region,” Journal of Democracy 19 (2): 94-108.

La Raja, Raymond. 2009. “Redistricting: Reading Between the Lines,” Annual Review of Political Science 12 (forthcoming).

LaVon, Rice. 2007 “Queer Africa,” Color Line Magazine 38 (May/June).

Lijphart, Arend. 1994. Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. [Chapter 1 & 7]

Lindberg, Staffan. 2006. Democracy and Elections in Africa. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (first and concluding chapters, with Appendices)

Mozaffar, Shaheen, James Scarritt, and Glen Galaich. 2003. “Electoral Institutions, Ethno-political Cleavages and Political Parties in Africa,” American Political Science Review 93 (3): 379-390.

Norris, Pippa. 2004. Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [Chapter 11]

Owen, Guillermo, and Bernard Groffman. 1988. “Optimal partisan gerrymandering.” Political Geography Quarterly 7(1): 5-22.

Pastor, Robert A. 1999. “The role of electoral administration in democratic transitions: Implications for policy and research.” Democratization 6(4): 1-27.

Persson, Torsten, Guido Tabellini, and Francesco Trebbi. 2003. “Electoral rules and corruption.” Journal of the European Economic Association 1(4): 958-989.

Samuels, David J. and Richard Snyder. 2001. “The Value of a Vote: Malapportionment in Comparative Perspective.” British Journal of Political Science 31(4): 651–671.

Smith, Daniel A. 2002. “Consolidating Democracy? The Structural Underpinnings of Ghana’s 2000 Elections.” Journal of Modern African Studies 40 (4):621-50.

Todd Donovan. 2007. “A Goal for Reform: Make Elections Worth Stealing,” PS: Political Science & Politics, 40: 681-686.

Van Binsberger, Wim. 1995. “Aspects of Democracy and Démocratisation in Zambia and Botswana: Exploring African Political Culture at the Grassroots,” Journal of Contemporary African Studies 13: 3-33.

van de Walle, Nicolas. 2002. “Elections without Democracy: Africa’s Range of Regimes,” Journal of Democracy 13: 5-21.

 

 

WEEK 2: Parties and Partisanship

 

 

Aldrich, John. 1995. Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Political Parties in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) [chpts 1-2].

Allah-Mensah, Beatrix. 2005. Women in Politics and Public Life in Ghana. Accra: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. [chpt 2] http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/ghana/02989.pdf

Chandra, Kanchan. 2005. “Ethnic Parties and Democratic Stability.” Perspectives on Politics 3(2): 215-33.

Collier, Paul and Pedro Vicente. 2009. “Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria.” Working paper. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco/research/pdfs/VotesandViolence.pdf 

Downs, Anthony. 1957. “An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy,” Journal of Political Economy 65: 135-50.

Dunning, Thad, and Lauren Harrison. 2009. “Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Ethnic Voting: An Experimental Study of Cousinage in Mali,” Afrobarometer Working Paper No. 107, April. http://se1.isn.ch/serviceengine/FileContent?serviceID=ISN&fileid=0C4241B6-5442-C701-DA2B-8D6A80DA0E6F&lng=en

Duverger, Maurice, "Factors in a Two-Party and Multiparty System," in Party Politics and Pressure Groups (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1972), pp. 23-32. Science Review 48.

Fridy, Kevin. 2007. “The Elephant, Umbrella, and Quarrelling Cocks: Disaggregating Partisanship in Ghana’s Fourth Republic,” African Affairs 106: 281-305.Frymer, Paul. 1999. Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America (Princeton: Princeton University Press) [chpt 1]

Fridy, Kevin and Victor Brobbey. 2009. “Win the match and vote for me: the politicisation of Ghana’s Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko football clubs,” Journal of Modern African Studies 45(1).

Green, Donald, and Alan Gerber. 2002. “Reclaiming the experimental tradition in political science,” in Political Science: State of the Discipline. Ira Katznelson and Helen Milner, eds. New York: W.W. Norton.

Humphreys, Macartan and Jeremy Weinstein. 2009. “Field Experiments and the Political Economy of Development.” Annual Review of Political Science (forthcoming).

Katz, Richard S. and Peter Mair. 1995. “Changing Models of Party Organization and Party Democracy: Emergence of the Cartel Party,” Party Politics 1: 5-28.

Kuenzi, Michelle, and Gina Lambright. 2001. “Party System Institutionalization in 30 African Countries,” Party Politics 7(4): 437-468.

Lindberg, Staffan I. 2007. “Institutionalization of Party Systems? Stability and Fluidity among Legislative Parties in Africa’s Democracies” Government and Opposition. 42(2): 215-41. 

Manning, Carrie, “Assessing African Party Systems after the Third Wave.” Party Politics.  (2005), 11: 707-27.

Masket, Seth E. 2009. No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures (University of Michigan Press) [chpt 1].
http://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/9780472116898-ch1.pdf.

Posner, Dan. 2004. “The political salience of cultural difference: Why Chewas and Tumbukas are allies in Zambia and adversaries in Malawi.” American Political

Ukiwo, Ukoha. 2003. “Politics, Ethno-religious conflicts and democratic consolidation in Nigeria,” Journal of Modern African Studies 41: 115-38.

van de Walle, Nicolas. 2003. “Presidentialism and Clientelism in Africa’s Emerging Party Systems,” Journal of Modern African Studies 41(2): 297-321.

Wallerstein, Immanuel. 1967. “Class, Tribe, and Party in West African Politics.” In Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-National Perspectives, ed. S. M. Lipset and S. Rokkan. New York, NY: The Free Press.

Wantchekon, Leonard. “Clientelism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin.” 2003. World Politics 55 (April): 399-422.
 

WEEK 3: Voting and Elections

 

Bratton, Michael. 2004. “The ‘Alteration Effect’ in Africa.” Journal of Democracy 15 (4): 147-158.

Heath, Anthony, Stephen Fisher, and Shawna Smith. 2005. “The Globalization of Public Opinion Research.” Annual Review of Political Science 8:297-333.

Farrell, David. 1998. “Political Consultancy Overseas: The Internationalization of Campaign Consultancy,” PS: Political Science and Politics 31: 171-76.

Farrell, David, Robin Kolodny, and Stephen Medvic. 2001. “Parties and Campaign Professionals in a Digital Age,” The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 6: 11-30.

Garcia-Rivero, Carolos. 2006. Race, Class and Underlying Trends in Party Support in South Africa, Party Politics 12: 57-75.

Ishiyama, John, and and Krystal Fox. 2006.  “What Affects the Strength of Partisan Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa?” Politics and Policy 34: 748-73.

Johnston, Richard. 2006. “Party Identification: Unmoved Mover or Sum of Preferences?” Annual Review of Political Science (9): 329-351.

Lewis-Beck, Michael S., William G. Jacoby, Helmut Norpoth, and Herbert F. Weisberg. 2008. The American Voter Revisited. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press [chpts 2 and 6].

Moehler, Devra C. 2009. “Critical Citizens and Submissive Subjects: Election Losers and Winners in Africa,” British Journal of Political Science 39: 345–366.

Morris P. Fiorina. 2002. “Parties and Partisanship: A 40-Year Retrospective,” Political Behavior 24: 93-115.

Moehler, Devra C. and Lindberg, Staffan. “Narrowing the Legitimacy Gap: The Role of Turnovers in Africa’s Emerging Democracies,” Afrobarometer Working Paper No. 88. http://polisci.msu.edu/afronov25/papers/AfropaperNo88.pdf

Plasser, Fritz. 2002. “American Campaign Techniques Worldwide.” Safundi 3(1): 1-20.

Sussman, Gerald and Lawrence Galizio. 2003. “The Global Reproduction of American Politics,” Political Communication, 20: 309–328.