Arbeitspapier

Origins and Outcomes of Electoral Institutions in African Hybrid Regimes: A Comparative Perspective

In the early 1990s most African countries carried out extensive reforms of their electoral regimes. Adopting a historical institutionalist approach, this paper critically examines the role of institutional path dependence in accounting for the setup of six African electoral regimes. For this purpose, we distinguish between different types of path dependence. The paper further analyzes the extent to which the development of electoral institutions contributed to the regime-type outcome (democratic/hybrid/autocratic). The main emphasis herein is on so-called hybrid regimes; in other words, regimes existing in the grey zone between democracy and autocracy. The paper finds that, while institutional path dependence has a limited but important impact on the setup of the electoral regimes, it is ultimately the process of decision-making during critical junctures that accounts for the regime type outcome. Hybrid regimes lack long-term institutional ownership.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: GIGA Working Papers ; No. 197

Klassifikation
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
Thema
hybrid regimes
democratization
historical institutionalism
electoral institutions
Africa
Wahlsystem
Reform
Politisches System
Demokratisierung
Institutionalismus
Pfadabhängigkeit
Afrika

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Stroh, Alexander
Elischer, Sebastian
Erdmann, Gero
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
(wo)
Hamburg
(wann)
2012

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Stroh, Alexander
  • Elischer, Sebastian
  • Erdmann, Gero
  • German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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