Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173657 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
AGDI Working Paper No. WP/17/051
Publisher: 
African Governance and Development Institute (AGDI), Yaoundé
Abstract: 
The purpose of this paper is to explore in greater detail the nexus between party system change and democratic qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are affected by the instability of the patterns of inter-party competition (fluidity of the party system), but we also plan to show how the sub-components of party system fluidity (frequency of change, scope of change, variety of change) influence the democratic qualities. By disaggregating fluidity in its constitutive elements and by testing how each of them affects the qualities of democracy, we find that while the frequency of change has a beneficial impact on the qualities of democracy, the other sub-components of fluidity—namely, the “scope” and “variety” of system change—have a consistently negative effect on democratic quality.
Subjects: 
party system change
East Africa
South East Asia
fluidity
democracy
JEL: 
D02
D72
H00
H11
H89
O00
O10
O43
O55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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