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- Ahram, A. I., et al.
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The Decline and Fall of the Arab State
- 2016
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Ingår i: Survival. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0039-6338 .- 1468-2699. ; 58:2, s. 7-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The malaise of Arab states was triggered by domestic battles, but made possible by global changes in the nature of sovereignty.
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- Baldwin, Kate, et al.
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Is authority fungible? Legitimacy, domain congruence, and the limits of power in Africa
- 2024
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Ingår i: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE. - 0092-5853 .- 1540-5907.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Scholars increasingly recognize the plurality of leaders who exercise de facto authority in governing communities. But what limits different leaders' power to organize distinct types of collective action beyond the law? We contend that leaders' influence varies by activity, depending on the degree to which the activity matches the leaders' geographic scope and field of expertise ("domain congruence"). Employing conjoint endorsement experiments in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia, we test whether domain congruence predicts citizens' willingness to comply with leader requests across different activities and examine the mechanisms that explain its importance. We find limits on leaders' authority, that the concept of domain congruence helps predict the activities over which leaders have the greatest influence, and that leaders' domain legitimacy may underpin the relationship between domain congruence and authority.
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- Benstead, Lindsay, et al.
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Does it matter what observers say? The impact of international election monitoring on legitimacy
- 2022
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Ingår i: Mediterranean Politics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1362-9395 .- 1743-9418. ; 27:1, s. 57-78
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Full Article Figures & data References Supplemental Citations Metrics Reprints & Permissions Get access ABSTRACT Scholars and democracy promoters often suggest that electoral observers’ (EOs’) assessments impact public opinion in a straightforward manner, yet, research on communication cautions against these sanguine assumptions. We test the impact of EO statements on public opinion in two very different contexts using survey experiments conducted among 3,361 Jordanians and Tunisians. Our results demonstrate the need for democracy promoters to consider negative consequences when implementing democracy promotion programmes, and for scholars to undertake further research regarding the impacts of election monitoring on domestic attitudes.
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- Benstead, Lindsay, et al.
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Using Tablet Computers to Implement Surveys in Challenging Environments
- 2017
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Ingår i: Survey Practice. - 2168-0094. ; 10:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) has increasingly been used in developing countries, but literature and training on best practices have not kept pace. Drawing on our experiences using CAPI to implement the Local Governance Performance Index (LGPI) in Tunisia and Malawi and an election study in Jordan, this paper makes practical recommendations for mitigating challenges and leveraging CAPI’s benefits to obtain high quality data. CAPI offers several advantages. Tablets facilitate complex skip patterns and randomization of long question batteries and survey experiments, which helps to reduce measurement error. Tablets’ global positioning system (GPS) technology reduces sampling error by locating sampling units and facilitating analysis of neighborhood effects. Immediate data uploading, time-stamps for individual questions, and interview duration capture allowed real time data quality checks and interviewer monitoring. Yet, CAPI entails challenges, including costs of learning new software; questionnaire programming; and piloting to resolve coding bugs; and ethical and logistical considerations, such as electricity and Internet connectivity.
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- Carlitz, Ruth D, et al.
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Governance Beyond the State: Social Institutions and Service Delivery
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Oxford University Press Handbook of the Quality of Government. - Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press. - 9780198858218
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The past two decades have seen a “good governance” agenda gain prominence among both scholars and practitioners. When the state performs well, a number of positive consequences are expected to follow as a result. However, state institutions are not the sole determinants of development outcomes. This chapter takes an expanded view of governance, highlighting the role of nonstate, or social, institutions. Such an expanded view can help account for the variation we observe across and within countries in the quality of service delivery. Specifically, we show how social institutions can affect the targeting of public goods and services, the information that citizens have about the quality of service delivery, and their willingness and ability to make demands for improved services. We conclude by reflecting on the research agenda that emerges if we take social institutions more seriously, and the policy implications that may result.
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- Clark, J. A., et al.
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Not the only game in towns: explaining changes in municipal councils in post-revolutionary Tunisia
- 2019
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Ingår i: Democratization. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1351-0347 .- 1743-890X. ; 26:8, s. 1362-1381
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study sheds light on the relationship between local and national elites during political transitions. Examining local councils in post-revolutionary Tunisia (2011-2013), it examines why and when the composition of councils changed in the absence of local elections. The study yields two important lessons. First, changes in councils resulted from a power struggle between national and local elites. Councils were more likely to remain in place when local parties and unions helped council members resist pressures from above. The interplay of local and national actors, and not the council's competencies, explains when changes took place. Second, all councils became politicized in the process. Far from being caretaker councils impartially addressing local needs, the councils were institutions playing important roles in the struggles between local and national political elites. Councils were arenas in which political power, and notions of legitimate representation, were contested in the absence of elections. The argument is supported by quantitative analyses of original data and four comparative case studies based on qualitative fieldwork. The findings highlight the importance of local councils in transition processes and provide a basis for further work exploring local-national engagement in democratization.
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- Dulani, B., et al.
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Elections in the time of covid-19: the triple crises around Malawi’s 2020 presidential elections
- 2021
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Ingår i: Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1745-7289 .- 1745-7297. ; 31:S1, s. 56-68
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In June 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Malawians went to the polls and voted to replace the incumbent government. Much like other natural disasters, the Covid-19 pandemic and accompanying economic and political shocks had the potential to shake voters’ confidence in the government, reduce turnout, and/or reduce support for the incumbent if voters associated them with the ills of the pandemic. In this paper, we examine the extent to which the Coronavirus pandemic influenced Malawi’s 2020 elections. We consider how fear of infection and economic distress affected citizens’ trust and confidence in President Mutharika’s government, their willingness to turn out to vote, and their choices at the polls using data collected pre- and post-Covid. We find that fears about the virus and its economic impact did influence trust and confidence in the government to handle Covid but had little to no effect on either abstention or vote choice. © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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