To elect or not to elect: Leaders, alternation in power and social welfare in sub-Saharan Africa
By: Carbone, Giovanni and Pellegata, Alessandro
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BookPublisher: The Journal of Development Studies Description: 53(12), Dec, 2017: p.1965-1987.
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The Journal of Development StudiesSummary: This paper investigates whether and how multiparty elections, introduced in many African countries since the early 1990s, affect a government’s commitment to welfare policies. We hypothesise that contested multiparty elections and turnovers between different leaders and political forces in government – even when democratic standards are not met – positively impact the promotion of social welfare. We test these hypotheses through a cross-sectional and time-series research design, making use of our new, comprehensive ‘Africa Leadership Change’ (ALC) dataset. Empirical results confirm that leaders elected through multiparty elections and countries that experience political alternations in government are associated with higher levels of social welfare.- Reproduced
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2017.1279733
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This paper investigates whether and how multiparty elections, introduced in many African countries since the early 1990s, affect a government’s commitment to welfare policies. We hypothesise that contested multiparty elections and turnovers between different leaders and political forces in government – even when democratic standards are not met – positively impact the promotion of social welfare. We test these hypotheses through a cross-sectional and time-series research design, making use of our new, comprehensive ‘Africa Leadership Change’ (ALC) dataset. Empirical results confirm that leaders elected through multiparty elections and countries that experience political alternations in government are associated with higher levels of social welfare.- Reproduced
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00220388.2017.1279733
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