03716nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001600172072001500188072001500203072002300218072001800241100015600259245018400415250001800599264007900617300006500696336002600761337002600787338003600813347002400849505042000873520146301293650004402756650002202800650004502822650002902867650003102896650004702927710003402974773002603008776003603034776003603070776003603106856004603142912001403188912001503202999001703217978-3-031-52399-1DE-He21320251030111818.0cr nn 008mamaa240415s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315239919978-3-031-52399-17 a10.1007/978-3-031-52399-12doi 4aJQ1870-3981 7aJP2bicssc 7a1H2bicssc 7aPOL0530002bisacsh 7aJPx1H2thema1 aBisong Tambe, Elvis.eauthor.0(orcid)0000-0001-9413-64161https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9413-64164aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut97518210aSocial Status and Political Participation of Rich and Poor Citizens in Africah[electronic resource] :bWhen the Resource-Poor are the Most Likely Voters /cby Elvis Bisong Tambe.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXXIV, 264 p. 38 illus., 2 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 a1.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.  aThis 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). 0aAfricaxPolitics and government.967669 0aElections.970850 0aInternational economic relations.95810414aAfrican Politics.96767124aElectoral Politics.97085124aInternational Political Economy’.9713742 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303152398408iPrinted edition:z978303152400408iPrinted edition:z978303152401140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52399-1  aZDB-2-POS  aZDB-2-SXPI  c59132d59132