Shaheen Mozaffar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 158180 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Shaheen Mozaffar |
| NOMBRES | Shaheen |
| APELLIDO | Mozaffar |
| FIRMA | MOZAFFAR S |
| AFILIACIONES | Bridgewater State University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-6631-1353 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 569 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
African Legislators
African legislators both resemble and differ from the societies they claim to represent in important ways. Based on a unique survey of representative samples of parliamentarians in 17 countries, we find that legislatures are representative of national publics in terms of ethnicity and religion. At the same time, compared to ordinary African citizens, African MPs possess far higher levels of education and are far more likely to be older, male and …
In Whose Interest? Gender and Mass–Elite Priority Congruence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Do men and women representatives hold different legislative priorities? Do these priorities align with citizens who share their gender? Whereas substantive representation theorists suggest legislators’ priorities should align with their cogender constituents, Downsian-based theories suggest no role for gender. We test these differing expectations through a new originally collected survey data set of more than 800 parliamentarians and data from mo…
Ethnopolitical demography and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa
Ethnic fragmentation is largely presumed to be bad for democracy. However, many African countries belie this claim, as democracy has recently sprouted in several of its multiethnic states. We argue that African countries that have demographic patterns where the largest ethnopolitical group is at least a near-majority and is simultaneously divided into nested subgroups produce Africa's most democratic multiethnic societies. This large-divided-grou…
Legislatures and Democratic Development in Africa
Afrobarometer data collected three decades after Joel Barkan's pioneering survey of rural Kenyans confirm his insights that voters stress MPs' linkage roles in terms of representation (carrying views upward to the capital) and constituency service (bringing goods downward from national government) over their institutional roles (lawmaking and oversight). And, contrary to conventional wisdom, they prefer collective goods for the constituency over …
Between Science and Engineering
Political scientists have contributed to the world of electoral systems as scientists and as engineers. Taking stock of recent scientific research, we show that context modifies the effects of electoral rules on political outcomes in specific and systematic ways. We explore how electoral rules shape the inclusion of women and minorities, the depth and nature of political competition, and patterns of redistribution and regulation, and we consider …
Parliaments and the enhancement of democracy on the African continent
While modern parliaments in Africa receive little attention in the scholarly literature, they are drawing considerable attention from the international donor community. Since the early 1990s, when many African countries resumed multi-party elections and democratic practices, legislative strengthening programmes have become an important part of international democracy assistance. Despite these programmes, our knowledge about Africa's current parli…
Negotiating Independence in Mauritius
The democratic institutions, especially the electoral institutions for converting votes into seats that were chosen during independence negotiations, have been the key to democratic stability in Mauritius. These institutions emerged out of strategic bargaining structured around a combination of contextual and contingent variables. Conflicting political interests reflecting a combination of class, sectarian and communal interests influenced the in…
The State Must Be Our Master of Fire
The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal. By Dennis C. Galvan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 331p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Oral history among the Serer ethnic group in western Senegal suggests that a heroic itinerant ancestor founded the community in a parcel of land he cleared by setting fire to the brush and the forest. This original fire is the source of the au…
The Puzzle of African Party Systems
Two puzzling features characterize African party systems: low fragmentation and high volatility. We present systematic data describing these features and provide a theoretically grounded explanation of them. The explanation emphasizes the role of strategic choice structured by the institutional legacies of authoritarian regimes in the formation and development of political parties. Political restrictions under authoritarian regimes produced sever…
Electoral Institutions, Ethnopolitical Cleavages, and Party Systems in Africa's Emerging Democracies
Do electoral institutions and ethnopolitical cleavages shape the structure of party systems separately or jointly? We examine the independent, additive, and interactive effects on the number of electoral and legislative parties of two institutional variables (district magnitude and proximity of presidential and legislative elections), one intervening variable (effective number of presidential candidates), and two new measures of ethnopolitical cl…
Patterns of Electoral Governance in Africa's Emerging Democracies
This article describes and explains patterns of electoral governance in Africa's emerging democracies through a systematic examination of election management bodies (embs), the formal units principally responsible for the organization and conduct of elections. The effectiveness of embs as institutional linchpins of electoral governance depends largely, but not exclusively, on their autonomy from the government. The article measures the degree of …
The Comparative Study of Electoral Governance—Introduction
Electoral governance is a crucial variable in securing the credibility of elections in emerging democracies, but remains largely ignored in the comparative study of democratization. This article develops some basic analytical tools to advance comparative analysis and understanding of this neglected topic. It conceptualizes electoral governance as a set of related activities that involves rule making, rule application, and rule adjudication. It id…
A 'whole system' approach to the choice of electoral rules in democratizing countries
African Politics in Postimperial Times
The Interaction Between Democracy and Ethnopolitical Protest and Rebellion in Africa
This article reconciles theoretical and methodological differences between the Minorities at Risk (MAR) project and Bratton and van de Walle's 1997 analysis of democratic transitions occurring between 1990 and 1994. Analyses based on MAR have shown that protest in the 1980s was more likely to occur in more democratic African countries, whereas violent rebellion was more likely to occur in more autocratic countries. Bratton and van de Walle have s…
Forging Democracy from below
Electoral systems and democratization in Southern Africa
by Andrew Reynolds, Oxford University Press, 1999, xiv+341 pp., hbk, £35, ISBN 0 19 829510 3
Why territorial autonomy is not a viable option for managing ethnic conflict in African plural societies
(1999). Why territorial autonomy is not a viable option for managing ethnic conflict in African plural societies. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: Vol. 5, Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies, pp. 230-253
The specification of ethnic cleavages and ethnopolitical groups for the analysis of democratic competition in contemporary Africa
Ethnicity remains an important (but not the only) cost‐effective strategic resource for organizing collective political action in Africa's emerging democracies. To advance systematic analysis of the impact of ethnicity on current patterns of democratic politics and the potential for democratic consolidation, this article describes and presents a comprehensive data set on ethnopolitical groups in all 48 African countries. It explicates the theoret…
Electoral systems and their political effects in Africa
Shaheen Mozaffar sets out some preliminary findings regarding the impacts of different electoral systems on political representation and party systems in Africa
African Politics and Problems in Development
The Nigerian State
Features: * Problem-solving opportunities to challenge children to think about concepts that they have learned in mathematics in more abstract ways. * Practical, hands-on activities in which pupils actively explore mathematics through activities such as measuring, making models and so on. * Talk about points to encourage children to make links and connections between mathematics and the real world and to verbalise and communicate their ideas. * L…
Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria
Originally published in 1987, this book examines the relationship between the pattern of party formation in Nigeria and a mode of social, political and economic behaviour Richard Joseph terms 'prebendalism'. He demonstrates the centrality in the Nigerian polity of the struggle to control and exploit public office and argues that state power is usually viewed by Nigerians as an array of prebends, the appropriation of which provides access to the s…
Award Recipients
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African Politics
Electoral Institutions, Ethnopolitical Cleavages, and Party Systems in Africa's Emerging Democracies
Do electoral institutions and ethnopolitical cleavages shape the structure of party systems separately or jointly? We examine the independent, additive, and interactive effects on the number of electoral and legislative parties of two institutional variables (district magnitude and proximity of presidential and legislative elections), one intervening variable (effective number of presidential candidates), and two new measures of ethnopolitical cl…
The Comparative Study of Electoral Governance—Introduction
Electoral governance is a crucial variable in securing the credibility of elections in emerging democracies, but remains largely ignored in the comparative study of democratization. This article develops some basic analytical tools to advance comparative analysis and understanding of this neglected topic. It conceptualizes electoral governance as a set of related activities that involves rule making, rule application, and rule adjudication. It id…
The Puzzle of African Party Systems
Two puzzling features characterize African party systems: low fragmentation and high volatility. We present systematic data describing these features and provide a theoretically grounded explanation of them. The explanation emphasizes the role of strategic choice structured by the institutional legacies of authoritarian regimes in the formation and development of political parties. Political restrictions under authoritarian regimes produced sever…
In Whose Interest? Gender and Mass–Elite Priority Congruence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Do men and women representatives hold different legislative priorities? Do these priorities align with citizens who share their gender? Whereas substantive representation theorists suggest legislators’ priorities should align with their cogender constituents, Downsian-based theories suggest no role for gender. We test these differing expectations through a new originally collected survey data set of more than 800 parliamentarians and data from mo…
The specification of ethnic cleavages and ethnopolitical groups for the analysis of democratic competition in contemporary Africa
Ethnicity remains an important (but not the only) cost‐effective strategic resource for organizing collective political action in Africa's emerging democracies. To advance systematic analysis of the impact of ethnicity on current patterns of democratic politics and the potential for democratic consolidation, this article describes and presents a comprehensive data set on ethnopolitical groups in all 48 African countries. It explicates the theoret…
Patterns of Electoral Governance in Africa's Emerging Democracies
This article describes and explains patterns of electoral governance in Africa's emerging democracies through a systematic examination of election management bodies (embs), the formal units principally responsible for the organization and conduct of elections. The effectiveness of embs as institutional linchpins of electoral governance depends largely, but not exclusively, on their autonomy from the government. The article measures the degree of …
A 'whole system' approach to the choice of electoral rules in democratizing countries
Electoral systems and their political effects in Africa
Shaheen Mozaffar sets out some preliminary findings regarding the impacts of different electoral systems on political representation and party systems in Africa
Parliaments and the enhancement of democracy on the African continent
While modern parliaments in Africa receive little attention in the scholarly literature, they are drawing considerable attention from the international donor community. Since the early 1990s, when many African countries resumed multi-party elections and democratic practices, legislative strengthening programmes have become an important part of international democracy assistance. Despite these programmes, our knowledge about Africa's current parli…
The Interaction Between Democracy and Ethnopolitical Protest and Rebellion in Africa
This article reconciles theoretical and methodological differences between the Minorities at Risk (MAR) project and Bratton and van de Walle's 1997 analysis of democratic transitions occurring between 1990 and 1994. Analyses based on MAR have shown that protest in the 1980s was more likely to occur in more democratic African countries, whereas violent rebellion was more likely to occur in more autocratic countries. Bratton and van de Walle have s…
Legislatures and Democratic Development in Africa
Afrobarometer data collected three decades after Joel Barkan's pioneering survey of rural Kenyans confirm his insights that voters stress MPs' linkage roles in terms of representation (carrying views upward to the capital) and constituency service (bringing goods downward from national government) over their institutional roles (lawmaking and oversight). And, contrary to conventional wisdom, they prefer collective goods for the constituency over …
Why territorial autonomy is not a viable option for managing ethnic conflict in African plural societies
(1999). Why territorial autonomy is not a viable option for managing ethnic conflict in African plural societies. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: Vol. 5, Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies, pp. 230-253
Negotiating Independence in Mauritius
The democratic institutions, especially the electoral institutions for converting votes into seats that were chosen during independence negotiations, have been the key to democratic stability in Mauritius. These institutions emerged out of strategic bargaining structured around a combination of contextual and contingent variables. Conflicting political interests reflecting a combination of class, sectarian and communal interests influenced the in…
The State Must Be Our Master of Fire
The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal. By Dennis C. Galvan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 331p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Oral history among the Serer ethnic group in western Senegal suggests that a heroic itinerant ancestor founded the community in a parcel of land he cleared by setting fire to the brush and the forest. This original fire is the source of the au…
Between Science and Engineering
Political scientists have contributed to the world of electoral systems as scientists and as engineers. Taking stock of recent scientific research, we show that context modifies the effects of electoral rules on political outcomes in specific and systematic ways. We explore how electoral rules shape the inclusion of women and minorities, the depth and nature of political competition, and patterns of redistribution and regulation, and we consider …
Ethnopolitical demography and democracy in sub-Saharan Africa
Ethnic fragmentation is largely presumed to be bad for democracy. However, many African countries belie this claim, as democracy has recently sprouted in several of its multiethnic states. We argue that African countries that have demographic patterns where the largest ethnopolitical group is at least a near-majority and is simultaneously divided into nested subgroups produce Africa's most democratic multiethnic societies. This large-divided-grou…
The Political Economy of African Foreign Policy
The State-Society Struggle
Forming Economic Policy
The Politics of Africa's Economic Stagnation
Award Recipients
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African Politics
Decolonization and the State in Kenya
Democracy and Prebendal Politics in Nigeria
Originally published in 1987, this book examines the relationship between the pattern of party formation in Nigeria and a mode of social, political and economic behaviour Richard Joseph terms 'prebendalism'. He demonstrates the centrality in the Nigerian polity of the struggle to control and exploit public office and argues that state power is usually viewed by Nigerians as an array of prebends, the appropriation of which provides access to the s…
The Nigerian State
Features: * Problem-solving opportunities to challenge children to think about concepts that they have learned in mathematics in more abstract ways. * Practical, hands-on activities in which pupils actively explore mathematics through activities such as measuring, making models and so on. * Talk about points to encourage children to make links and connections between mathematics and the real world and to verbalise and communicate their ideas. * L…
African Politics and Problems in Development
Electoral systems and their political effects in Africa
Shaheen Mozaffar sets out some preliminary findings regarding the impacts of different electoral systems on political representation and party systems in Africa
Why territorial autonomy is not a viable option for managing ethnic conflict in African plural societies
(1999). Why territorial autonomy is not a viable option for managing ethnic conflict in African plural societies. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: Vol. 5, Identity and Territorial Autonomy in Plural Societies, pp. 230-253
The specification of ethnic cleavages and ethnopolitical groups for the analysis of democratic competition in contemporary Africa
Ethnicity remains an important (but not the only) cost‐effective strategic resource for organizing collective political action in Africa's emerging democracies. To advance systematic analysis of the impact of ethnicity on current patterns of democratic politics and the potential for democratic consolidation, this article describes and presents a comprehensive data set on ethnopolitical groups in all 48 African countries. It explicates the theoret…
Electoral systems and democratization in Southern Africa
by Andrew Reynolds, Oxford University Press, 1999, xiv+341 pp., hbk, £35, ISBN 0 19 829510 3
The Interaction Between Democracy and Ethnopolitical Protest and Rebellion in Africa
This article reconciles theoretical and methodological differences between the Minorities at Risk (MAR) project and Bratton and van de Walle's 1997 analysis of democratic transitions occurring between 1990 and 1994. Analyses based on MAR have shown that protest in the 1980s was more likely to occur in more democratic African countries, whereas violent rebellion was more likely to occur in more autocratic countries. Bratton and van de Walle have s…
Forging Democracy from below
Patterns of Electoral Governance in Africa's Emerging Democracies
This article describes and explains patterns of electoral governance in Africa's emerging democracies through a systematic examination of election management bodies (embs), the formal units principally responsible for the organization and conduct of elections. The effectiveness of embs as institutional linchpins of electoral governance depends largely, but not exclusively, on their autonomy from the government. The article measures the degree of …
The Comparative Study of Electoral Governance—Introduction
Electoral governance is a crucial variable in securing the credibility of elections in emerging democracies, but remains largely ignored in the comparative study of democratization. This article develops some basic analytical tools to advance comparative analysis and understanding of this neglected topic. It conceptualizes electoral governance as a set of related activities that involves rule making, rule application, and rule adjudication. It id…
A 'whole system' approach to the choice of electoral rules in democratizing countries
African Politics in Postimperial Times
Electoral Institutions, Ethnopolitical Cleavages, and Party Systems in Africa's Emerging Democracies
Do electoral institutions and ethnopolitical cleavages shape the structure of party systems separately or jointly? We examine the independent, additive, and interactive effects on the number of electoral and legislative parties of two institutional variables (district magnitude and proximity of presidential and legislative elections), one intervening variable (effective number of presidential candidates), and two new measures of ethnopolitical cl…
Negotiating Independence in Mauritius
The democratic institutions, especially the electoral institutions for converting votes into seats that were chosen during independence negotiations, have been the key to democratic stability in Mauritius. These institutions emerged out of strategic bargaining structured around a combination of contextual and contingent variables. Conflicting political interests reflecting a combination of class, sectarian and communal interests influenced the in…
The State Must Be Our Master of Fire
The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal. By Dennis C. Galvan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 331p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Oral history among the Serer ethnic group in western Senegal suggests that a heroic itinerant ancestor founded the community in a parcel of land he cleared by setting fire to the brush and the forest. This original fire is the source of the au…
The Puzzle of African Party Systems
Two puzzling features characterize African party systems: low fragmentation and high volatility. We present systematic data describing these features and provide a theoretically grounded explanation of them. The explanation emphasizes the role of strategic choice structured by the institutional legacies of authoritarian regimes in the formation and development of political parties. Political restrictions under authoritarian regimes produced sever…
Parliaments and the enhancement of democracy on the African continent
While modern parliaments in Africa receive little attention in the scholarly literature, they are drawing considerable attention from the international donor community. Since the early 1990s, when many African countries resumed multi-party elections and democratic practices, legislative strengthening programmes have become an important part of international democracy assistance. Despite these programmes, our knowledge about Africa's current parli…
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