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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
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
Data and research: assessing corruption in Southern Africa through the eyes of Southern Africans

Author: Mattes, Robert ; Bratton, Michael Date: 2001 Read more
Learning about Democracy in Africa: Awareness, Performance, and Experience

Author: Mattes, Robert ; Bratton, Michael Date: 2003 Conventional views of African politics imply that Africans arrive at political opinions largely on the basis of their positions in the social structure or enduring cultural values. In contrast, we argue that Africans form attitudes to democracy ... Read more
Poverty, survival and democracy in Southern Africa

Author: Mattes, Robert ; Bratton, Michael ; Davids, Yul Derek Date: 2002 One of the clearest findings of empirical political science is that the prospects of sustaining democratic government in a poor society are far lower than in a relatively wealthy one. Precisely why poverty undermines democracy, however, has ... Read more c b n d
Support for democracy in Africa: intrinsic or instrumental?

Author: Bratton, Michael ; Mattes, Robert Date: 2001 Comparative analysis of original survey data from Ghana, Zambia and South Africa is used here to assess the attitudes of African citizens towards democracy. Is democracy valued intrinsically (as an end in itself) or instrumentally (for example, ... Read more
Support for economic reform? Popular attitudes in southern Africa

Author: Bratton, Michael ; Mattes, Robert Date: 2004 Do ordinary people support programs of economic reform? If so, why? If not, why not? This article breaks new ground by reporting and comparing public opinion from seven Southern African countries based on systematic Afrobarometer surveys. It ... Read more c b n d
Support for Economic Reform? Popular Attitudes in Southern Africa

Author: Bratton, Michael ; Mattes, Robert Date: 2003 Do ordinary people support programs of economic reform? If so, why? If not, why not? This article breaks new ground by reporting and comparing public opinion from seven Southern African countries based on systematic Afrobarometer surveys. It ... Read more