Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in AfricaThis book is a groundbreaking exploration of public opinion in sub-Saharan Africa. Based on the Afrobarometer, a survey research project, it reveals what ordinary Africans think about democracy and market reforms, subjects on which almost nothing is otherwise known. The authors find that support for democracy in Africa is wide but shallow and that Afrcns feel trapped between state and market. While Africans are learning about reform on the basis of knowledge, reasoning, and experience, few countries are likely to attain full-fledged democracies and markets anytime soonn. |
Contents
Africas Hybrid Regimes | 13 |
A Decade of Political Reforms 19902001 | 15 |
Two Decades of Economic Reforms 19902001 | 19 |
Compatibles and Contradictions | 23 |
Demand Supply and Regime Consolidation | 26 |
Deriving Public Opinion | 31 |
Studying Public Opinion in Africa | 34 |
Competing Theories Rival Hypotheses | 35 |
Cognitive Engagement | 211 |
Political and Economic Knowledge | 213 |
The Eye of the Beholder | 216 |
Cognitive Models | 219 |
Performance Evaluations | 222 |
Evaluating the Economy | 223 |
The Corruption of the State? | 228 |
Assessing Regime Performance | 235 |
Toward a Learning Approach | 44 |
Survey Research in Africa | 50 |
The Afrobarometer | 53 |
An Appropriate Method? | 55 |
A Quest for Comparison | 59 |
POPULAR ATTITUDES TO REFORM | 63 |
Attitudes to Democracy | 65 |
Support for Democracy | 72 |
Rejection of Alternative Regimes | 76 |
Satisfaction with Democracy | 81 |
Wide But Shallow | 84 |
The Extent of Democracy | 94 |
Attitudes to a Market Economy | 97 |
The Popular Development Agenda | 98 |
Between State and Market | 104 |
Awareness of Economic Reforms | 112 |
Support for Economic Reforms | 117 |
Satisfaction with Economic Reforms | 122 |
Economic Patience? | 126 |
Economic and Political Behavior | 130 |
Living Standards | 131 |
Securing Economic Livelihoods | 135 |
Compliance with the Law | 141 |
Varieties of Political Participation | 143 |
Defending Democracy | 155 |
From Attitudes to Behavior | 157 |
COMPETING EXPLANATIONS | 161 |
The Structure of Society | 163 |
Demographic Determinants | 164 |
Varieties of Subnationalism | 169 |
The Burden of Poverty | 176 |
Structural Models | 181 |
Cultural Values | 185 |
SelfDefined | 186 |
Interpersonal Trust | 193 |
An Emergent Individualism | 197 |
Cultural Models | 200 |
Awareness of Public Affairs | 203 |
The Spark of Education | 204 |
Exposure to Mass Media | 208 |
Grading the Government | 238 |
A Representation Gap? | 241 |
Performance Models | 246 |
Institutional Influences | 250 |
Associational Life | 251 |
Party Identification | 256 |
Political Participation | 261 |
Economic Participation | 265 |
Institutional Models | 266 |
EXPLAINING REFORM CONSTITUENCIES | 269 |
Modeling Attitudes to Reform | 271 |
Modeling Demand for Democracy | 272 |
Modeling the Supply of Democracy | 277 |
Modeling Demand for a Market Economy | 282 |
Modeling the supply of Economic Reform | 286 |
A Learning Process | 289 |
Predicting Political Participation | 295 |
Voting | 296 |
Protesting | 300 |
Communing and Contacting | 301 |
Vote Choice | 304 |
Defending Democracy | 308 |
Cause or Effect? | 309 |
Deciphering Regime Consolidation | 315 |
The Effects of Country | 316 |
Demand Supply and Regime Consolidation Revisited | 320 |
The Consolidation of African Political Regimes | 324 |
The Correlates of Consolidation | 327 |
Economic versus Political Legacies | 333 |
Paths of Political Legacies | 337 |
Conclusions | 343 |
The Study of Africa | 344 |
Theories of Social Change | 347 |
Strategies of Development | 351 |
A Items Constructs and Indices | 355 |
B Sampling Method | 392 |
C Imputation of Data | 397 |
Notes | 401 |
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Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa Michael Bratton,Robert Mattes,E. Gyimah-Boadi No preview available - 2004 |
Common terms and phrases
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