Owen B Sichone
Biographic Data
| ID | 150526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Owen B Sichone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Owen B |
| FAMILY NAME | Sichone |
| SIGNATURE | SICHONE O B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Copperbelt University, Zambia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Predatory Co-optation and Party System Reversal: A Behavioural Perspective on Zambian Political Parties
Based on a Zambian case study of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), this paper applies the behavioural theory of party competition to explain how, through vote-seeking and office-seeking strategies, political parties may employ rapacious predatory co-optation of members from competing political parties as a mobilisation strategy. The paper concludes that in the absence of a dominant political party, parties and political elites may reso…
Refractory Frontier: Intra-party Democracy in the Zambian Polity
Despite the important role that intra-party democracy plays in democratic consolidation, particularly in third-wave democracies, it has not received as much attention as inter-party democracy. Based on the Zambian polity, this article uses the concept of selectocracy to explain why, to a large extent, intra-party democracy has remained a refractory frontier. Two traits of intra-party democracy are examined: leadership transitions at party preside…
Democratic Participation in Rural Tanzania and Zambia: The Impact of Civic Education
To see ourselves as we need to see us: Ethnography's primative turn in the early cold war years
Against a backdrop of calls for a more layered understanding of the dominant societal concerns which influence anthropologists' thinking, and thus the need to address the philosophies and assumptions that for so long misrepresented those characterized as 'primitive' along with others marked out as culturally or biologically inferior, I reflect on the existential crisis that engulfed Euroamerica in the early Cold War years. This was a threat anthr…
Poèmes
To see ourselves as we need to see us: Ethnography's primative turn in the early cold war years
Against a backdrop of calls for a more layered understanding of the dominant societal concerns which influence anthropologists' thinking, and thus the need to address the philosophies and assumptions that for so long misrepresented those characterized as 'primitive' along with others marked out as culturally or biologically inferior, I reflect on the existential crisis that engulfed Euroamerica in the early Cold War years. This was a threat anthr…
Poèmes
To see ourselves as we need to see us: Ethnography's primative turn in the early cold war years
Against a backdrop of calls for a more layered understanding of the dominant societal concerns which influence anthropologists' thinking, and thus the need to address the philosophies and assumptions that for so long misrepresented those characterized as 'primitive' along with others marked out as culturally or biologically inferior, I reflect on the existential crisis that engulfed Euroamerica in the early Cold War years. This was a threat anthr…
Democratic Participation in Rural Tanzania and Zambia: The Impact of Civic Education
Refractory Frontier: Intra-party Democracy in the Zambian Polity
Despite the important role that intra-party democracy plays in democratic consolidation, particularly in third-wave democracies, it has not received as much attention as inter-party democracy. Based on the Zambian polity, this article uses the concept of selectocracy to explain why, to a large extent, intra-party democracy has remained a refractory frontier. Two traits of intra-party democracy are examined: leadership transitions at party preside…
Predatory Co-optation and Party System Reversal: A Behavioural Perspective on Zambian Political Parties
Based on a Zambian case study of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), this paper applies the behavioural theory of party competition to explain how, through vote-seeking and office-seeking strategies, political parties may employ rapacious predatory co-optation of members from competing political parties as a mobilisation strategy. The paper concludes that in the absence of a dominant political party, parties and political elites may reso…
Political science (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Accountability (1 works)