Severed Connections

How Intraparty Politics Erodes Representation in Democratic Africa

AvDonghyun Danny Choi

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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Beskrivning

Political parties are often seen as guarantors of democratic accountability. Yet their internal decisions over who may run for office can have pernicious consequences for the quality of representation. Severed Connections reframes our understanding of democratic dysfunction by tracing how politics inside parties shapes whether elected officials are attentive to their constituents, well before voters cast a ballot. Drawing on Kenya as a central case, with comparisons across democratic Africa and beyond, the book argues that party leaders use control over candidate selection to balance two competing objectives: winning elections and consolidating power within the party. They resolve this tension strategically, nominating voter-oriented candidates in competitive districts and loyal insiders in party strongholds. These choices leave citizens in strongholds systematically underserved - not because institutions are weak or voters are uninformed, but because the party decided their legislators' priorities long before election day. Severed Connections places the internal life of political parties at the center of how democratic representation succeeds or fails.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2027-01-31
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Antal sidor:260
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009882187

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Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

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Donghyun Danny Choi is Stephen Robert Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brown University, and coauthor of Native Bias (2022), winner of the Best Book Award in Experimental Research from the American Political Science Association. His research appears in journals such as the American Political Science Review and the American Journal of Political Science.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Severed connections; 2. Nominations, control, and representation; 3. Situating the contest: Kenya in context; 4. Inside the nomination contest; 5. Rigging the rules, rigging the game; 6. Voters as instruments; 7. Where representation lives; 8. Gatekeepers to democracy.

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