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100			_aCarbone, Giovanni and Pellegata, Alessandro _957889
245			_aTo elect or not to elect: Leaders, alternation in power and social welfare in sub-Saharan Africa
260			_aThe Journal of Development Studies
300			_a53(12), Dec, 2017: p.1965-1987
520			_aThis 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
773			_aThe Journal of Development Studies
906			_aELECTION
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