Party footprints in Africa: measuring local party presence across the continent

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dc.contributor.authorKrönke, Matthias
dc.contributor.authorLockwood, Sarah J
dc.contributor.authorMattes, Robert
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-26T10:19:26Z
dc.date.available2021-01-26T10:19:26Z
dc.date.issued2020-10
dc.description.abstractThe conventional view holds that most of Africa’s political parties are organizationally weak, with little grassroots presence. Yet few studies are based on systematically collected data about more than a handful of parties or countries at any given point. In this paper, we focus on one crucial aspect of party organization – the local presence that enables political parties to engage with and mobilize voters – and use Afrobarometer data to develop the Party Presence Index, the first systematic, cross-national measure of local party presence in Africa. We then apply the index to a series of substantive questions, confirming its value and demonstrating its potential to add significantly to our understanding of grassroots party organization.en_US
dc.identifier.apacitationKrönke, M., Lockwood, S. J., & Mattes, R. (2020). <i>Party footprints in Africa: measuring local party presence across the continent</i> (CSSR Working Paper;459). Centre for Social Science Research. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32678en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationKrönke, Matthias, Sarah J Lockwood, and Robert Mattes <i>Party footprints in Africa: measuring local party presence across the continent.</i> CSSR Working Paper;459. Centre for Social Science Research, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32678en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationKrönke, M., Lockwood, S.J. & Mattes, R. 2020. <i>Party footprints in Africa: measuring local party presence across the continent</i>. (CSSR Working Paper;459). Centre for Social Science Research. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32678 .en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper AU - Krönke, Matthias AU - Lockwood, Sarah J AU - Mattes, Robert AB - The conventional view holds that most of Africa’s political parties are organizationally weak, with little grassroots presence. Yet few studies are based on systematically collected data about more than a handful of parties or countries at any given point. In this paper, we focus on one crucial aspect of party organization – the local presence that enables political parties to engage with and mobilize voters – and use Afrobarometer data to develop the Party Presence Index, the first systematic, cross-national measure of local party presence in Africa. We then apply the index to a series of substantive questions, confirming its value and demonstrating its potential to add significantly to our understanding of grassroots party organization. DA - 2020-10 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Political Science KW - Political Parties KW - Africa LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PY - 2020 T1 - Party footprints in Africa: measuring local party presence across the continent TI - Party footprints in Africa: measuring local party presence across the continent UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32678 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/32678
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationKrönke M, Lockwood SJ, Mattes R. Party footprints in Africa: measuring local party presence across the continent. 2020 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32678en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCentre for Social Science Researchen_US
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_US
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCSSR Working Paper;459
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAfrobarometer Working Paper;186
dc.subjectPolitical Scienceen_US
dc.subjectPolitical Partiesen_US
dc.subjectAfricaen_US
dc.titleParty footprints in Africa: measuring local party presence across the continenten_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
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