Identity, Grievances, and Economic Determinants of Voting in the 2007 Kenyan Elections

Identity , Grievances , and Economic Determinants of Voting in the 2007 Kenyan

What might have caused the post-2007 election violence in Kenya? Was it election irregularities as widely claimed or could it have been simmering ethnicrivalries waiting to spill over? While not directly focusing on the post-election violence, we investigate a number of issues that divided Kenyans in the 2007 Presidential election. Following a rational choice framework and using survey data of ...

The Role of Ethnic Identity and Economic Issues in the 2007 Kenyan Elections

This paper investigates the factors that shaped Kenyan’s voting intentions in the 2007 presidential election. Using data from a public opinion survey conducted two weeks before the election we are able to evaluate the relative importance of what shaped voting behavior comprehensively, taking into account factors such as ethnicity, access to public services, incidence of poverty and wealth diffe...

New Zealand 2002. HiT summary

New Zealand is a parliamentary democracy with a unicameral legislature. The country adopted a “mixed member proportional” voting system from 1993 that ushered in more frequent elections and coalition governments. The government in recent years has sought to address longstanding native Māori grievances, underpinned by recognition of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, signed by some Māori groups and th...

A Study of Factors that Influenced Voters’ Behaviour: A Case of Billiri Local Government (2019 General Elections)

Economic Voting in Gubernatorial Elections

There is a large literature on economic voting in the United States, which shows that the economy matters in presidential and congressional elections. Puzzlingly, however, the state politics literature has failed to find clear evidence for economic voting in gubernatorial elections. In this study, I use population-based datasets of state and county-level economic conditions from 1969-2016 to ex...