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Africa's growth dividend? Lived poverty drops across much of the continent

Author: Mattes, Robert ; Dulani, Boniface ; Gyimah-Boadi, E Date: Jan 2016 Though Africa has recorded high levels of economic growth over the past decade, previous Afrobarometer surveys of citizens found little evidence that this growth had reduced levels of poverty in any consistent way (Dulani, Mattes, & Logan, ... Read more
Africa's recent oil boom : are the same mistakes being made again? Investigating the effect of the recent surge in oil prices upon the prospects of long term development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author: Rhodes, Anton Date: 2009 There has been as yet no empirical study that has undertaken to identify how Sub-Saharan African (SSA) states have allocated the wealth generated from the 21st century oil boom. The answer to this question may well determine whether Africa ... Read more
Africa's triple transition: popular perspectives

Author: Mattes, Robert ; Bratton, Michael Date: 2001 Sub-Saharan Africa has witnessed the end of foreign colonial rule, the rise and fall of autocratic political regimes, and the disappearance of statist command economies. The challenges were to turn populations into coherent nations owing ... Read more
African legislatures and HIV/AIDS : an exploratory analysis

Author: Searle, Alexandra Date: 2011 Since 1981 AIDS has killed more than 25 million people world-wide, the majority of whom lived within developing countries. The worst affected region, Sub Saharan Africa, currently has 3.5% of the world’s population yet 37% of the world’s ... Read more
The African Legislatures Project: First Findings

Author: Barkan, Joel D ; Mattes, Robert ; Mozaffar, Shaheen ; Smiddy, Kimberly Date: 2010 This report presents the "first findings" from the African Legislatures Project or ALP. The report is based on the preliminary coding and analysis of data obtained from research in six countries-Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Namibia and ... Read more c b n d
Africans' surprising universalism

Author: Bratton, Michael ; Mattes, Robert Date: 2001 Africa is a latecomer to democratization. In terms of timing, Africa has followed rather than led other continents in giving birth to the reform movements that have installed elected governments, multiparty systems, and more open societies ... Read more
After a Decade of Growth in Africa, Little Change in Poverty at the Grassroots

Author: Dulani, Boniface ; Mattes, Robert ; Logan, Carolyn Date: Oct 2013 New data from Round 5 of the Afrobarometer, collected across an unprecedented 34 African countries between October 2011 and June 2013,1 demonstrates that “lived poverty” remains pervasive across the continent. This data, based on the views ... Read more
An application of Lindbergs thesis in assessing democratic growth in Zambia

Author: Chileshe, Chileshe Date: 2011 More specifically, the study examines whether a within country, over time analysis of Zambia, reveal that Zambia is in fact becoming more democratic. The study assesses democratic quality in Zambia using sub-concepts of participation, ... Read more
Are there economic returns from democracy? : the experience of Sub-Saharan Africa from 1988-2007

Author: Andersen, Ryan Date: 2011 There is an enduring debate as to whether democracy promotes or hinders economic growth. This study examines the relationship between democracy and economic growth in 47 sub-Saharan African countries from 1988 to 2007. From the late 1980s ... Read more
The born frees: The prospects for generational change in post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Mattes, Robert Date: 2011 Political culture theory explains political instability and change as the result of incongruity between mass attitudes and values on one hand, and political institutions on the other (Almond and Verba 1963). Thus, the “third wave of democracy” ... Read more
Children's political rights: participation in legislative processes in the South African Parliament

Author: Jamieson, Lucy Date: 2012 The aim of my study was to measure the extent of children's participation in legislative processes that affect them and examine the factors that facilitate or inhibit such participation. Read more
Commitment to democracy in Mozambique : performance evaluations and cognition : evidence from round 2 of the Afrobarometer survey data

Author: Shenga, Carlos Date: 2007 Word processed copy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-103). Read more
Controlling power - Africans' views on governance, citizenship and accountability

Author: Mattes, Robert Date: 2010 Social Accountability in Africa: Practitioners' Experiences and Lessons is a collection of case studies from Africa on social accountability. This collection attempts to build aconsolidated body of knowledge on social accountability efforts ... Read more
Data and research: assessing corruption in Southern Africa through the eyes of Southern Africans

Author: Mattes, Robert ; Bratton, Michael Date: 2001 Read more
Democracy as a Lesser Evil: Testing the Churchill Notion of Democracy in South Africa and South Korea

Author: Shin, Doh ; Mattes, Robert Date: 2004 Winston Churchill asserted in 1947 that “democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” To date, this lesser-evil notion of democracy has been tested only in the post-communist ... Read more c b n d
The democratic impact of cultural values in Africa and Asia: The cases of South Korea and South Africa

Author: Mattes, Robert ; Shin, Doh Chull Date: 2005 Traditional cultural values have long been seen by scholars as a significant obstacle to political and economic development in the post colonial world, especially in Africa and Asia. Publics which prioritise things like the collective good ... Read more c b n d
Democratizing the measurement of democratic quality: public attitude data and the evaluation of African political regimes

Author: Logan, Carolyn ; Mattes, Robert Date: 2010 The emerging literature on the "quality of democracy" promises to advance our knowledge of democratization in several ways. First of all, it takes us beyond the narrow assessment of stability and endurance of democratic political regimes to ... Read more c b n d
Do southern Africa’s dominant-party systems affect popular attitudes?

Author: Cole, Eric Jacobson Date: 2015 Among the most distinctive features of Southern African politics is the region’s preponderance of one-party dominant systems. Considerable effort has been made to explain the unusual phenomenon with some analysts emphasizing the potential of ... Read more
Does ethnicity determine electoral behaviour: the structural and attitudinal basis of partisan identification in 12 African nations

Author: Norris, Pippa ; Mattes, Robert Date: 2003 Structural theories predict that the cues of social identity, particularly ethnicity, should exert a strong influence upon voting choices and party support in traditional agrarian societies, characterized by low levels of education and minimal ... Read more c b n d
Does ethnicity determine electoral behaviour: the structural and attitudinal basis of partisan identification in 12 African nations

Author: Norris, Pippa ; Mattes, Robert Date: 2003 Structural theories predict that the cues of social identity, particularly ethnicity, should exert a strong influence upon voting choices and party support in traditional agrarian societies, characterized by low levels of education and minimal ... Read more c b n d

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