Afrobarometer Working Papers
Afrobarometer is an independent, nonpartisan research project that measures the social, political and economic atmosphere in Africa. Its surveys are conducted in more than a dozen African countries and are repeated at a regular cycle. They compare countries systematically and track trends in public attitudes. The Afrobarometer Working Papers provide information on the perception of democracy in Africa, commenting on elections, governance and political identities.
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- Pre-Colonial Political Centralization and Contemporary Development in Uganda
- Can Donors and Non-State Actors Undermine Citizen's Legitimating Beliefs?
- Exploiting the Poor: Bureaucratic Corruption and Poverty in Africa
- From Vice to Virtue? Civil War and Social Capital in Uganda
- Perceptions Versus Reality: Assessing Popular Evaluations of Election Quality in Africa
- The Political Participation of Africa's Youth: Turnout, Partisanship, and Protest
- Museveni and the 2011 Ugandan Election
- Sources of State Legitimacy in Contemporary South Africa
- Too Poor to Care?
- Separate and Suspicious: Local Social and Political Context and Ethnic Tolerance in Kenya
- The "Born Frees"
- When Politicians Cede Control of Resources
- Mapping Ideologies in African Landscapes
- The Roots of Resilience: Exploring Ppular Support for African Traditional Authorities
- Voting Intentions in Africa
- Why Do Citizens Assent to Pay Tax?
- Ethnicity and the Willingness to Sanction Violent Politicians
- Understanding Citizens Attitudes to Democracy in Uganda
- Democratizing the Measurement of Democratic Quality
- Anchoring the "D-Word" in Africa
- Urban-Rural Differences in Support for Incumbents Across Africa
- Citizen Perceptions of Local Government Responsiveness in Sub-Saharan Africa
- The Ethnicity Distraction? Political Credibility and Partisan Preferences in Africa
- African Perspectives on Africa-China
- Do Voters Have Different Attitudes Toward Corruption?
- Support You Can Count On? Ethnicity, Partisanship and Retrospective Voting in Africa
- Vote-Buying and Political Behavior: Estimating and Explaining Vote-Buying's Effect on Turnout in Kenya
- Religious Faith and Democracy
- National Versus Ethnic Identity in Africa
- Weak States and Political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Looking Toward the Future: Alternations in Power and Popular Persperctives on Democratic Durability in Africa
- The Limited Impacts of Formal Education on Democratic Citizenship in Africa
- The Quality of Democracy and Governance in Africa: New Results from Afrobarometer Round 4
- Cross-Cutting Cleavages and Ethnic Votes
- Is Clientelism at Work in African Elections? A Study of Voting Behavior in Kenya and Zambia
- Rationality, Cosmopolitanism, and Adjustment Fatigue: Public Attitudes to Economic Reform in Zambia
- Do Free Elections Foster Capable Governments?
- Tribalism as a Minimax-Regret Strategy: Evidence from Voting in the 2007 Kenyan Elections
- Corruption and Trust in Political Institutions in sub-Saharan Africa
- Frustration relative de démocratie en Afrique
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Evolution of Mistrust in Africa
- Vote Buying and Violence in Nigerian Election Campaigns
- The Material and Political Bases of Lived Poverty in Africa
- Looking Behind the Window: Measuring Instrumental and Normative Reasoning in Support for Democracy
- Social Capital and Political Trust in West Africa
- Voting in Kenya
- Rejecting the Disloyal Opposition?
- Traditional Leaders In Modern Africa
- Ethnically Dominated Party Systems and the Quality of Democracy
- 'Uncritical Citizenship' in a 'Low-Information' Society
- Social Capital and Political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Political Sources of Ethnic Identification in Africa
- Narrowing the Legitimacy Gap
- Young and Old in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Corruption, Institutional Discredit, and Exclusion of the Poor
- Perceived Corruption, Public Opinion and Social Influence in Senegal
- Quality of Elections, Satisfaction with Democracy, and Political Trust in Africa
- Corruption And Institutional Trust In Africa
- Political Rights versus Public Goods
- Ethnicity as a Political Cleavage
- Democracy Without People
- Political Transition, Corruption, and Income Inequality in Third Wave Democracies
- It's All Relative
- Support for Competitive Politics and Government Performance
- Optimism and Poverty in Africa
- Education and Support for Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Legitimating Beliefs: Sources and Indicators
- The Micro-Dynamics of Welfare State Retrenchment and the Implications for Citizenship in Africa
- Identity Voting and the Regional Census in Malawi
- A Vicious Circle of Corruption and Mistrust in Institutions In Sub-Saharan Africa
- Kenyans and Democracy: What Do They Really Want From It, Anyway?
- Corruption and the Inequality Trap in Africa
- Identity, Institutions and Democracy in Nigeria
- Public Opinion Research in Emerging Democracies: Are the Processes Different?
- Ethnic Fractionalization, Electoral Institutions, and Africans' Political Attitudes
- Are You Being Served? Popular Satisfaction with Health and Education Services in Africa
- Crime and Support for Democracy
- Voters But Not Yet Citizens: The Weak Demand For Political Accountability in Africa's Unclaimed Democrats
- Delivery or Responsiveness? A Popular Scorecard of Local Government Performance in South Africa
- Citizens and the State in Africa: New Results from Afrobarometer Round 3
- Where is Africa Going? Views from Below
- Popular Reactions To State Repression: Operation Murambatsvina in Zimbabwe
- The Political Gender Gap In Africa: Similar Attitudes, Different Behaviors
- Support For Democracy in Malawi: Does Schooling Matter?
- Poor People and Democratic Citizenship in Africa
- Free and Fair or Fradulent and Forged: Elections and Legitimacy in Africa
- Democracy and Primary School Attendance
- Seeking the Democratic Dividend: Public Attitudes and Attempted Reform in Nigeria
- Who Votes in Africa? An Examination of Electoral Turnout in 10 African Countries
- The Democratic Impact of Cultural Values in Africa and Asia: The Cases of South Korea and South Africa
- Electoral Institutions, Partisan Status, and Political Support
- The Durability of Political Goods? Evidence From Nigeria's New Democracy
- Democracy Without Democrats?
- Ten Years of Democracy in Malawi: Are Malawians Getting What They Voted For?
- Democrats with Adjectives: Linking Direct and Indirect Measures of Democratic Support
- State Building and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Fowards, Backwards, or Together?
- Sources of Ethnic Identification in Africa
- The Power of Propaganda: Public Opinion in Zimbabwe
- Satisfaction with Democracy and Performance of the New Deal Government: Attitudes and Perceptions of Zambians
- The Micro-Foundations of Ethnic Voting: Evidence From South Africa
- Political Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Understanding Identity in Africa
- Marginalisation in Southern Africa: Transformation from Below?
- Libéralisme, patriomonialisme ou autoritarisme atténué
- Démocratie et légitimation du marché
- Afrobarometer Round 2: Compendium of Comparative Results from a 15-Country Survey
- A New Dawn? Popular Optimism in Kenya After the Transition
- The State of Democracy in Lesotho
- Learning About Democracy in Africa: Awareness, Performance, and Experience
- Eight Years of Multiparty Democracy in Mozambique: The Public's View
- Development as Freedom: A Virtuous Circle?
- The Growth of Democracy in Ghana Despite Economic Dissatisfaction
- Insiders and Outsiders: Varying Perceptions of Democracy and Governance in Uganda
- Does Ethnicity Determine Support for the Governing Party?
- Democracy, Market Reform, and Social Peace in Cape Verde
- Democratic Governance in South Africa
- Poverty, Survival and Democracy in Southern Africa
- Mozambicans' Views of Democracy and Political Reform
- Examining HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa Through the Eyes of Ordinary Southern Africans
- Examining HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa Through the Eyes of Ordinary Southern Africans
- Down to Earth: Changes in Attitudes Toward Democracy and Markets in Nigeria
- Wide but Shallow: Popular Support for Democracy in Africa
- Uncritical Citizens or Patient Trustees? Tanzanians' Views of Political and Economic Reform
- Afrobarometer Round 1: Compendium of Comparative Data from a Twelve-Nation Survey
- Challenges to Democratic Consolidation in Zambia
- Public Opinion and the Consolidation of Democracy in Malawi
- Public Opinion and the Consolidation of Democracy in Namibia
- Public Attitudes Toward Democracy, Governance, and Economic Development in Botswana
- Citizen Perceptions of Democracy, Governance, and Political Crisis in Lesotho
- Popular Economic Values and Economic Reform in Southern Africa
- Uganda's Referendum 2000
- Democracy and National Governance in Zimbabwe
- Democratic and Market Reforms in Africa
- Democracy and Economy in Uganda
- Views of Democracy in South Africa and the Region
- Public Opinion and the Consolidation of Democracy in Southern Africa
- Attitudes to Democracy and Markets in Nigeria
- Support for Democracy in Africa
- Popular Perceptions of Good Governance in Mali
- Popular Perceptions of Good Governance in Mali
- Attitudes to Democracy and Markets in Ghana


