Browsing Articles by Author "Nwokora, Zim"

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Bridging the divide

Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim (Politics and Policy, 2016-12)

Party systems research has proceeded along two parallel lines of inquiry, one predominantly “qualitative” and the other “quantitative.” This article attempts to bridge this divide in two ways. First, by showing that ...
The costs of party system change: the case of Tanzania

Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim; Kinyondo, Abel (African Politics and Policy 1.3 (2015): 1-11., 2015)

Pelizzo, Kinyondo and Nwokora argue that party system changes and increases in party system changeability have generally been associated with a worsening democratic quality.
The political consequences of party system change

Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim (Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Politics & Policy, Volume 43, No. 4 (2015), 2015)

This article engages one of the important gaps in the literature on party system effects: the consequences of party system change. We discuss how existing empirical approaches to party system change do not actually capture ...