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When party policies do not matter: Examining the ambivalence of voting behaviors in the Zambian presidential elections Public Deposited
- Abstract
Debates on whether people in Zambia cast their votes for a presidential candidate based on the good policies of the party or the qualifications of their candidate are peppered with tales of ethnicity, tribalism, corruption, and the education levels of the voters. These problems have undermined the credibility of the winning candidates as being put into office based not on their qualifications, but on the desire for individual voters to have someone of their tribe as president. While some scholars have argued that people are not naïve to vote for a candidate irrationally, others hanker on the fact that party policies are barely known to the Zambian voter who takes different forms of communal identities. The two approaches underscore the nascent debates of voting behaviors in Zambia today. Therefore, the aim of the study is to examine the voting behaviors of Zambians in the 2011 Zambian presidential election. Quantitative evidence suggests that party policies and manifestos in the Zambian elections do not matter because people base their votes on ethnic alignments.
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- Date Issued
- 2018-01-01
- Academic Affiliation
- Journal Title
- Journal Volume
- Volume 12, No. 1
- Subject
- Zambia‟s cases are exceptional in Africa. That is why the International Institute for Justice and Peace (IIJP) declared the 2011 Zambian manifesto
- education
- party policies
- Hakainde Hichilema.
- INTRODUCTION The 2011 presidential elections marked the second time in Zambian history when the opposition party won against the ruling party. The Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) was the first in 1991 with Frederick Chiluba winning against the 27-year reign of President Kenneth Kaunda. While it might be common that the opposition wins elections in developed nations
- Ethnicity
- Michael Sata
- language
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- 2020-01-09
- Resource Type
- Rights Statement
- ISSN
- 1996 - 0832
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