Party-Voter Linkage in Africa

Download or read book Party-Voter Linkage in Africa written by Anja Osei and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-03-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parties in Africa are often described as organisationally and programmatically weak. On the other hand, they mobilise substantial numbers of voters at election time. This contradiction provokes an interesting question: How do political parties in Africa relate to the society? How do they mobilise their voters and sympathisers, and which strategies do they employ? Anja Osei analyses how parties in Ghana and Senegal adapt to their local context by employing locally embedded strategies.