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This book seeks to explore a fundamental obscurity in electoral behavior literature: while socioeconomic status is typically robustly and positively associated with a higher propensity for voting worldwide, the relationship in Africa is either negative or non-existent. Building upon the author's previous works relating to political participation, behavior and electoral processes, this work focuses specifically on 35 sub-Saharan African political system case studies and analyzes why resource-poor Africans tend to display greater electoral participation than their more comparatively affluent counterparts. Drawing from a methodological-theoretical framework utilizing Afrobarometer data and group mobilization theories such as the civic voluntarism model, electoral clientelism, democratic quality, preference theory and institutional perspectives, this book makes an original contribution to analyzing African regions less well-examined in existing comparative participatory political science literatures.
List of contents
1.The Puzzle.- 2.Socioeconomic Status and Voting in Africa: A Closer Look.- 3.Group Membership and the Mobilisation of Resource-Poor Voters.- 4.Reward Mobilisation and the Participation of Resource-Poor Citizens.- 5.Egime Type, Democratic Quality, and the Participation of Resource-rich Citizens.- 6.Policy Preferences and the Participation of Resource-rich Citizens.- 7.Institutional Context.- 8.Conclusion.
