Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Parties in chains: do ethnic party bans in Africa promote peace?
Since the sweeping (re)introduction of multiparty systems in the early 1990s, almost all sub-Saharan countries have introduced legal provisions to ban ethnic or other identity-based particularistic parties. Altogether, 12 countries have actually banned political parties on these grounds. In theoretical terms, such bans can exclude particularism from politics but - contrary to public discourse - also run the risk of forcing groups to resort to violent means or of becoming an object of conflict themselves. Empirically speaking, hardly any general patterns in the effects of bans can be detected. A closer look at 12 politically relevant bans in six countries reveals an initially stabilizing impact in one case (Rwanda in 1994). A ban on a religious party in Kenya in 1993 triggered violent conflict. In cases such as Equatorial Guinea (1994) and Rwanda (2001, 2003), this regulatory measure, allegedly designed to promote peace, seems to be part of the 'menu of manipulation' and is abused to suppress the opposition.
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Englisch
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 205-222
- ISSN
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1460-3683
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Party Politics, 17(2)
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Afrika südlich der Sahara
Partei
Parteiverbot
Ethnizität
ethnische Gruppe
Minderheit
religiöse Partei
ethnischer Konflikt
Parteiensystem
Partikularismus
Auswirkung
Moroff, Anika
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-369151
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ
Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Basedau, Matthias
- Moroff, Anika
Entstanden
- 2011
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