| dc.contributor.author | Sigman, Rachel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lindberg, Staffan I. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-07T10:40:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-11-07T10:40:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2077/54296 | |
| dc.description.abstract | One of the most common adjectives used to describe democracy in sub-Saharan Africa is "neopatrimonial". Characterized by strong executives, pervasive clientelism and use of state resources for political legitimation (Bratton and van de Walle 1997), neopatrimonial democracy has been (controversially) associated with a range of (mostly undesirable) social, political and economic outcomes. This paper offers an empirical assessment of neopatrimonialism in Africa's political regimes. We show that, contrary to conventional wisdom, African regimes vary both quantitatively and qualitatively in their embodiment of neopatrimonial rule. Moreover, we find no clear evidence indicating that neopatrimonialism necessarily impedes the advancement or survival of democracy. | sv |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This research project was supported by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Grant M13-0559:1, PI: Staff an I.
Lindberg, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; by Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation to
Wallenberg Academy Fellow Sta ffan I. Lindberg, Grant 2013.0166, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg,
Sweden; as well as by internal grants from the Vice-Chancellor's o ffice, the Dean of the College of Social
Sciences, and the Department of Political Science at University of Gothenburg. We performed simulations
and other computational tasks using resources provided by the Notre Dame Center for Research Computing
(CRC) through the High Performance Computing section and the Swedish National Infrastructure for
Computing (SNIC) at the National Supercomputer Centre in Sweden, SNIC 2016/1-382 and 2017/1-68. We
speci cally acknowledge the assistance of In-Saeng Suh at CRC and Johan Raber at SNIC in facilitating
our use of their respective systems. The indices of neopatrimonialism used in this paper will be available for
public use in V-Dem's v8 dataset, set to be released in April 2018 at www.v-dem.net. | sv |
| dc.language.iso | eng | sv |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Papers | sv |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2017:56 | sv |
| dc.title | Neopatrimonialism and Democracy: An Empirical Investigation of Africa's Political Regimes | sv |
| dc.type | Text | sv |
| dc.contributor.organization | V-Dem Institute | sv |
