03966nam a22005295i 4500 978-3-031-52399-1 DE-He213 20251030111818.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240415s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031523991 978-3-031-52399-1 10.1007/978-3-031-52399-1 doi JQ1870-3981 JP bicssc 1H bicssc POL053000 bisacsh JP 1H thema Bisong Tambe, Elvis. author. (orcid)0000-0001-9413-6416 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9413-6416 aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 75182 Social Status and Political Participation of Rich and Poor Citizens in Africa [electronic resource] : When the Resource-Poor are the Most Likely Voters / by Elvis Bisong Tambe. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XXIV, 264 p. 38 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1.The Puzzle -- 2.Socioeconomic Status and Voting in Africa: A Closer Look -- 3.Group Membership and the Mobilisation of Resource-Poor Voters -- 4.Reward Mobilisation and the Participation of Resource-Poor Citizens -- 5.Egime Type, Democratic Quality, and the Participation of Resource-rich Citizens -- 6.Policy Preferences and the Participation of Resource-rich Citizens -- 7.Institutional Context -- 8.Conclusion. This book seeks to explore a fundamental obscurity in electoral behavior literature: while socioeconomic status is typically robustly and positively associated with a higher propensity for voting worldwide, the relationship in Africa is either negative or non-existent. Building upon the author’s previous works relating to political participation, behavior and electoral processes, this work focuses specifically on 35 sub-Saharan African political system case studies and analyzes why resource-poor Africans tend to display greater electoral participation than their more comparatively affluent counterparts. Drawing from a methodological–theoretical framework utilizing Afrobarometer data and group mobilization theories such as the civic voluntarism model, electoral clientelism, democratic quality, preference theory and institutional perspectives, this book makes an original contribution to analyzing African regions less well-examined in existing comparative participatory political science literatures. Elvis Bisong Tambe is a senior lecturer in Political Science at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His research interests lie in the field of political behavior, political participation, public opinion, voting and electoral processes, with a focus on new and emerging democracies. He is the author of Electoral Participation in Newly Consolidated Democracies: Turnout in Africa, Latin America, East Asia and Post-Communist Europe (Routledge, 2021). Africa Politics and government. 67669 Elections. 70850 International economic relations. 58104 African Politics. 67671 Electoral Politics. 70851 International Political Economy’. 71374 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031523984 Printed edition: 9783031524004 Printed edition: 9783031524011 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52399-1 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 59132 59132