Format:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (330 p.))
ISBN:
9781139570961
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Content:
Cover; Multiethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns; Dedication; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 The Puzzle of Opposition Coordination; THE PROBLEM OF OPPOSITION COORDINATION IN AFRICA; EXISTING EXPLANATIONS FOR OPPOSITION COORDINATION; Ethnic Mobilization; Patronage Politics; Electoral Institutions; Economic Interests; ARGUMENT OF THE BOOK; IMPLICATIONS OF THE ARGUMENT; ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK; 2 A Theory of Pecuniary Coalition Formation. - ECONOMIC RESOURCES AND DEMOCRATIC CONTESTATIONTHE FORMATEUR'S COMMITMENT PROBLEM; THE PECUNIARY STRATEGY; THE CASE STUDIES: CAMEROON AND KENYA; CONCLUSION; 3 The Emergence of Financial Reprisal Regimes; THE COLONIAL FOUNDATION OF STATE-CAPITAL RELATIONS IN AFRICA; THE ARTICULATION OF INDIGENOUS BUSINESS GRIEVANCES; A POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE CREDIT PROBLEM; THE LINKAGE ROLE OF BUSINESS; BUSINESS DEPENDENCE ON STATE CONTROLLED CAPITAL; REINTERPRETING THE BUSINESS-STATE RELATIONSHIP; CONCLUSION; 4 The Political Control of Banking; UNEQUAL CAPITAL ACCUMULATION ACROSS CONSTITUENCIES. - A POLITICAL RATIONALE FOR CONTROLLING BANKINGPOLITICAL CONSTITUENCIES AND COMMERCIAL BANKING SECTOR SIZE; POLITICAL CONSTITUENCIES AND COMMERCIAL BANKING OWNERSHIP; DATA AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING COMPETING EXPLANATIONS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF COMMERCIAL BANKING SECTOR SIZE; CAMEROON AND KENYA: DIVERGENT BANKING NARRATIVES; Cameroon: Restricted Banking Entry; Kenya: Open Banking Entry; CONCLUSION; 5 The Liberalization of Capital; SELF-UNDERMINING FINANCIAL DIRIGISME; EXISTING EXPLANATIONS: CRISES, GROUPS, AND RENTS; BUSINESS-STATE RELATIONS AND FINANCIAL REFORM
Content:
Africa's long-ruling incumbents stay in power because opposition politicians struggle to secure the finances required to build electoral coalitions
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Multiethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns; Dedication; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1 The Puzzle of Opposition Coordination; THE PROBLEM OF OPPOSITION COORDINATION IN AFRICA; EXISTING EXPLANATIONS FOR OPPOSITION COORDINATION; Ethnic Mobilization; Patronage Politics; Electoral Institutions; Economic Interests; ARGUMENT OF THE BOOK; IMPLICATIONS OF THE ARGUMENT; ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK; 2 A Theory of Pecuniary Coalition Formation
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ECONOMIC RESOURCES AND DEMOCRATIC CONTESTATIONTHE FORMATEUR'S COMMITMENT PROBLEM; THE PECUNIARY STRATEGY; THE CASE STUDIES: CAMEROON AND KENYA; CONCLUSION; 3 The Emergence of Financial Reprisal Regimes; THE COLONIAL FOUNDATION OF STATE-CAPITAL RELATIONS IN AFRICA; THE ARTICULATION OF INDIGENOUS BUSINESS GRIEVANCES; A POLITICAL SOLUTION TO THE CREDIT PROBLEM; THE LINKAGE ROLE OF BUSINESS; BUSINESS DEPENDENCE ON STATE CONTROLLED CAPITAL; REINTERPRETING THE BUSINESS-STATE RELATIONSHIP; CONCLUSION; 4 The Political Control of Banking; UNEQUAL CAPITAL ACCUMULATION ACROSS CONSTITUENCIES
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A POLITICAL RATIONALE FOR CONTROLLING BANKINGPOLITICAL CONSTITUENCIES AND COMMERCIAL BANKING SECTOR SIZE; POLITICAL CONSTITUENCIES AND COMMERCIAL BANKING OWNERSHIP; DATA AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING COMPETING EXPLANATIONS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF COMMERCIAL BANKING SECTOR SIZE; CAMEROON AND KENYA: DIVERGENT BANKING NARRATIVES; Cameroon: Restricted Banking Entry; Kenya: Open Banking Entry; CONCLUSION; 5 The Liberalization of Capital; SELF-UNDERMINING FINANCIAL DIRIGISME; EXISTING EXPLANATIONS: CRISES, GROUPS, AND RENTS; BUSINESS-STATE RELATIONS AND FINANCIAL REFORM
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ASSESSING THE SOURCES OF FINANCIAL REFORMEMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF REFORM; Structural Adjustment Compliance; Private Credit Provision; CAMEROON AND KENYA: DIVERGENT REFORM NARRATIVES; Financial Control in Cameroon; FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION IN KENYA; CONCLUSION; 6 The Political Alignment of Business; THE POLITICAL MOBILIZATION OF BUSINESS; THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AS CORPORATIST INSTITUTION; ASSESSING THE DETERMINANTS OF CHAMBER PRESIDENCY TENURE; EXPLAINING THE DURATION OF CHAMBER PRESIDENCY; CAMEROON AND KENYA: DIVERGENT ALIGNMENT NARRATIVES; Business Alignment in Cameroon
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Cameroonian Business Supports Opposition DemandsCameroon's Bamileke Entrepreneurs Realign with Biya; Cameroon's Bamileke Entrepreneurs Become Ruling Party Stalwarts; Business Alignments in Kenya; Kenyan Business Vacillates During the Transition; Kenya's Kikuyu Entrepreneurs are Courted by the Incumbent; CONCLUSION; 7 Opposition Bargaining across Ethnic Cleavages; ETHNICITY AND CLIENTELISM IN FORMATEUR SELECTION; THE BARGAINING NARRATIVE IN CAMEROON; Bargaining Modalities; Candidate Jockeying; Financial Leverage; THE BARGAINING NARRATIVE IN KENYA; Bargaining Modalities; Candidate Jockeying
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Financial Leverage
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107021112
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Multiethnic coalitions in Africa
Language:
English
Keywords:
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