Elvis Bisong Tambe
Biographic Data
| ID | 218004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elvis Bisong Tambe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elvis Bisong |
| FAMILY NAME | Tambe |
| SIGNATURE | TAMBE E B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linnaeus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9413-6416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Climate Change and Gender Inequality
This study examines women’s perceptions of the mechanisms linking climate change and gender inequality in Mali. Drawing on 150 semi-structured interviews conducted with women in Segou, Koulikoro, and Bamako, it explores women’s understandings of gender equality, their experiences of climate change, and how they perceive the relationship between climate-related pressures and gender inequality across different local contexts. The findings show that…
How Do Ethnic Parties and Ethnic Quotas Matter for Ethnicity and Voting in Latin America
This article addresses an interesting puzzle in the study of ethnic disparities in political participation: inter-ethnic equality in political participation . Previous studies in the U.S. have shown an ethnic gap in political participation. Still, comparative research in other regions yields a mixed result, suggesting ethnic minority status may not always be associated with lower levels of participation. This article sheds light on this puzzle by…
Crisis-induced corruption and citizens’ evaluations of government Covid-19 response in Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted societies worldwide, creating not only a global health emergency but also a severe test of governance. Governments were required to mobilise resources with unprecedented urgency, under conditions of uncertainty and limited oversight. In this setting, politicians and bureaucrats exercised unusually broad discretion over resource allocation. We argue that these conditions created opportunities for corrupti…
Electoral Politics and Struggles for Accountability
This review essay focuses on electoral politics and the African accountability struggle, which has gained interest and scholarly attention following the third wave of democratization. Before the Namibia Constituent Assembly elections in November 1989, many would agree that elections were neither acknowledged nor considered appropriate for selecting governmental and national leaders. However, the democratic wave in the early 1990s marked a substan…
Addressing the gender gap
Women’s low political participation remains a problem in many parts of the globe. Previous research within the African context has examined the gender gap, focusing on individual-level factors. Still, the gender gap persists after controlling for the usual barriers (resource, attitudinal, social, and cultural). We complement prior studies by exploring the impact of an overlooked factor—institutions. We theorize that the gender gap in political pa…
Age and Political Participation in Africa’s Electoral Regimes
This article examines the relationship between age and four typesof political participation. Previous research has examined the age-participation nexus in the context of established democracies. Incontrast, few studies have been devoted to assessing agedifferences in other contexts, particularly those of Africa, where themeaning of age and age groups could be different than inindustrialised democracies. We argued in Africa that age’seffect onpoli…
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa
This article explores the effect of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in a sample of 34 African countries. It draws on Afrobarometer survey data from Round 5 and utilises a multilevel model to estimate individual and country-level effects. The article contributes to the literature on voter turnout, particularly by exploring the conditional effects of corruption and clientelism on individual voting decisions in Africa. We find that turno…
The Political Sociology of Voting Participation in Southern Africa
Voting participation constitutes and legitimatizes electoral democracy. However, research has been unable to predict and explain the lack of participation across political contexts. The present study aims to predict voting participation based on regional predictors using 11 countries from the Afrobarometer (2019). For the analysis, the study uses modern measurement models and Bayesian multilevel logit models (binary and categorical). The regional…
Is Self-Expression Chic? Globalisation, Value Change and Convergence in Latin America
The literature concerning human values change, argues the main factor driving increasing levels of secularization and self-expression is the improvement of material conditions. In fact, studies succeeded to present evidence of the strong relationship between GDP and post-materialist attitudes at the national level. Still, in this study, we demonstrate this relationship is not as strong in Latin America. Based on the theory of mass-elite convergen…
Electoral participation in African democracies
This paper addresses the question of how electoral participation at the individual level is affected by various political and sociological factors in new democracies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on Afrobarometer (Round 5) data, the study examines the determinants of voting for over 12,000 voting aged individuals in eight countries. Findings confirm the importance of individual characteristics such as age, associational networks, discussing poli…
Who Votes in East Asia
This paper reports an analysis of who votes in eight East Asian countries, based on self-reported turnout data collected by the Asian Barometer Surveys for over 10,105 voting-aged individuals. The major findings are that institutional variables appear to have much stronger effects than individual-level variables on the likelihood of voting in these democracies, which is consistent with some other comparative analyses of turnout in other geopoliti…
Age and Political Participation in Africa’s Electoral Regimes
This article examines the relationship between age and four typesof political participation. Previous research has examined the age-participation nexus in the context of established democracies. Incontrast, few studies have been devoted to assessing agedifferences in other contexts, particularly those of Africa, where themeaning of age and age groups could be different than inindustrialised democracies. We argued in Africa that age’seffect onpoli…
Addressing the gender gap
Women’s low political participation remains a problem in many parts of the globe. Previous research within the African context has examined the gender gap, focusing on individual-level factors. Still, the gender gap persists after controlling for the usual barriers (resource, attitudinal, social, and cultural). We complement prior studies by exploring the impact of an overlooked factor—institutions. We theorize that the gender gap in political pa…
The Political Sociology of Voting Participation in Southern Africa
Voting participation constitutes and legitimatizes electoral democracy. However, research has been unable to predict and explain the lack of participation across political contexts. The present study aims to predict voting participation based on regional predictors using 11 countries from the Afrobarometer (2019). For the analysis, the study uses modern measurement models and Bayesian multilevel logit models (binary and categorical). The regional…
Electoral participation in African democracies
This paper addresses the question of how electoral participation at the individual level is affected by various political and sociological factors in new democracies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on Afrobarometer (Round 5) data, the study examines the determinants of voting for over 12,000 voting aged individuals in eight countries. Findings confirm the importance of individual characteristics such as age, associational networks, discussing poli…
Who Votes in East Asia
This paper reports an analysis of who votes in eight East Asian countries, based on self-reported turnout data collected by the Asian Barometer Surveys for over 10,105 voting-aged individuals. The major findings are that institutional variables appear to have much stronger effects than individual-level variables on the likelihood of voting in these democracies, which is consistent with some other comparative analyses of turnout in other geopoliti…
Who Votes in East Asia
This paper reports an analysis of who votes in eight East Asian countries, based on self-reported turnout data collected by the Asian Barometer Surveys for over 10,105 voting-aged individuals. The major findings are that institutional variables appear to have much stronger effects than individual-level variables on the likelihood of voting in these democracies, which is consistent with some other comparative analyses of turnout in other geopoliti…
Electoral participation in African democracies
This paper addresses the question of how electoral participation at the individual level is affected by various political and sociological factors in new democracies in Sub-Saharan Africa. Relying on Afrobarometer (Round 5) data, the study examines the determinants of voting for over 12,000 voting aged individuals in eight countries. Findings confirm the importance of individual characteristics such as age, associational networks, discussing poli…
Is Self-Expression Chic? Globalisation, Value Change and Convergence in Latin America
The literature concerning human values change, argues the main factor driving increasing levels of secularization and self-expression is the improvement of material conditions. In fact, studies succeeded to present evidence of the strong relationship between GDP and post-materialist attitudes at the national level. Still, in this study, we demonstrate this relationship is not as strong in Latin America. Based on the theory of mass-elite convergen…
The Political Sociology of Voting Participation in Southern Africa
Voting participation constitutes and legitimatizes electoral democracy. However, research has been unable to predict and explain the lack of participation across political contexts. The present study aims to predict voting participation based on regional predictors using 11 countries from the Afrobarometer (2019). For the analysis, the study uses modern measurement models and Bayesian multilevel logit models (binary and categorical). The regional…
The impact of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in Africa
This article explores the effect of corruption and clientelism on voter turnout in a sample of 34 African countries. It draws on Afrobarometer survey data from Round 5 and utilises a multilevel model to estimate individual and country-level effects. The article contributes to the literature on voter turnout, particularly by exploring the conditional effects of corruption and clientelism on individual voting decisions in Africa. We find that turno…
Electoral Politics and Struggles for Accountability
This review essay focuses on electoral politics and the African accountability struggle, which has gained interest and scholarly attention following the third wave of democratization. Before the Namibia Constituent Assembly elections in November 1989, many would agree that elections were neither acknowledged nor considered appropriate for selecting governmental and national leaders. However, the democratic wave in the early 1990s marked a substan…
Addressing the gender gap
Women’s low political participation remains a problem in many parts of the globe. Previous research within the African context has examined the gender gap, focusing on individual-level factors. Still, the gender gap persists after controlling for the usual barriers (resource, attitudinal, social, and cultural). We complement prior studies by exploring the impact of an overlooked factor—institutions. We theorize that the gender gap in political pa…
Age and Political Participation in Africa’s Electoral Regimes
This article examines the relationship between age and four typesof political participation. Previous research has examined the age-participation nexus in the context of established democracies. Incontrast, few studies have been devoted to assessing agedifferences in other contexts, particularly those of Africa, where themeaning of age and age groups could be different than inindustrialised democracies. We argued in Africa that age’seffect onpoli…
How Do Ethnic Parties and Ethnic Quotas Matter for Ethnicity and Voting in Latin America
This article addresses an interesting puzzle in the study of ethnic disparities in political participation: inter-ethnic equality in political participation . Previous studies in the U.S. have shown an ethnic gap in political participation. Still, comparative research in other regions yields a mixed result, suggesting ethnic minority status may not always be associated with lower levels of participation. This article sheds light on this puzzle by…
Crisis-induced corruption and citizens’ evaluations of government Covid-19 response in Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted societies worldwide, creating not only a global health emergency but also a severe test of governance. Governments were required to mobilise resources with unprecedented urgency, under conditions of uncertainty and limited oversight. In this setting, politicians and bureaucrats exercised unusually broad discretion over resource allocation. We argue that these conditions created opportunities for corrupti…
Climate Change and Gender Inequality
This study examines women’s perceptions of the mechanisms linking climate change and gender inequality in Mali. Drawing on 150 semi-structured interviews conducted with women in Segou, Koulikoro, and Bamako, it explores women’s understandings of gender equality, their experiences of climate change, and how they perceive the relationship between climate-related pressures and gender inequality across different local contexts. The findings show that…
Political science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Development economics (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Voting (5 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 works)