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Fertilizer and Votes: Does Strategic Economic Policy Explain the 2009 Malawi Election?

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Brazys, Samuel 
Heaney, Peter 
Walsh, Patrick P. 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/6504
Date Issued
September 2015
Date Available
21T14:03:53Z April 2015
Abstract
Ethno-regional voting cleavages have featured in a number of sub-Saharan African states during the third wave of democratization. While these voting patterns are well studied, there have been few attempts to understand if pan-ethno-regional coalition building based on targeted economic policies can be employed to secure national electoral coalitions. We examine the 2009 Malawian parliamentary elections where a newly-formed national party used its incumbent position to promote an economic policy based on food security in order to overcome traditional ethno-regional voting patterns. After presenting a formal model of an optimal allocation of an economic resource to induce vote-switching, we use district-level data in a system of equations approach finding that this strategic allocation did indeed contribute to the nation-wide electoral victory.
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal
Electoral Studies
Volume
39
Start Page
39
End Page
55
Keywords
  • Elections

  • Africa

  • Identity politics

  • Ethno-regional

  • Clientelism

  • Prebendalism

DOI
10.1016/j.electstud.2015.03.007
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
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