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Democracy, decentralization, and district proliferation: The case of Ghana
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This article analyzed the motivations for district creation by focusing on Ghana and found that the incumbent party at the time, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), used re-districting as a tactic of malapportionment and predominantly targeted non-competitive districts where gaining an additional legislative seat in subsequent elections was more likely.About:
This article is published in Political Geography.The article was published on 2017-07-01. It has received 30 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Opposition (politics) & Decentralization.read more
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Electoral Politics in Africa since 1990: Continuity in Change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that regular elections have both caused significant changes in African politics and been influenced in turn by a rapidly changing continent -even if few of the political systems that now convene elections can be considered democratic, and even if many old features of African politics persist.
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Authoritarian Origins of Democratic Party Systems in Africa: References
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of party system variation is proposed and the emergence and endurance of the multiparty system in Africa and beyond is discussed, with a focus on party systems in new democracies.
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Progress and Retreat in Africa: Presidents Untamed
TL;DR: In this article, the author examines why the tradition of the "imperial president" persists and how appropriate constitutional drafting might help to tame presidential supremacy in Africa's new democracies, and examines why this notable feature of the ancient regime persists.
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Mainstreaming Ecosystem Services as Public Policy in South East Asia, from Theory to Practice
Ho Huu Loc,Kim N. Irvine,Asan Suwanarit,Pakorn Vallikul,Fa Likitswat,Alisa Sahavacharin,Chansopheaktra Sovann,Le Song Ha +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of four Southeast Asian nations (Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Cambodia and Vietnam) revealed that inclusion, or even consideration, of ES in public policy has been uneven throughout the region, ranging from essentially no consideration to quite sophisticated ES policy underpinnings; and even within a country there can be considerable difference in ES uptake.
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Government Fragmentation, Administrative Capacity, and Public Goods: The Negative Consequences of Reform in Burkina Faso:
TL;DR: Although countries throughout the developing world continue to increase their number of subnational administrative units, the consequences of administrative unit creation remain poorly understood as discussed by the authors, which is the case in many developing countries.
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A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
TL;DR: The authors show that the Musgrave-Samuelson analysis, which is valid for federal expenditures, need not apply to local expenditures, and restate the assumptions made by Musgrave and Samuelson and the central problems with which they deal.
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The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century
TL;DR: The third wave of democratization in the late 1970s and early 1990s as mentioned in this paper is the most important political trend in the last half of the 20th century, according to the authors.
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The Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: A Theoretical Inquiry
TL;DR: The problem of metropolitan government is often referred to as the problem of "too many governments and not enough government" as mentioned in this paper, and the diagnosis is that there are too many governments in a metropolitan area and there are not enough local authorities to deal directly with the range of problems which they share in common.
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The Two-party System and Duverger's Law: An Essay on the History of Political Science
TL;DR: This article examined the history of the recent and not wholly accepted revisions of the propositions collectively called Duverger's law: that the plurality rule for selecting the winner of elections favors the two-party system.