POLS370

Exam 3 Review

Public Opinion, Democracy, and Market Reform in Africa

(Bratton, Mattes, Gyimah-Boadi)

 

Introduction

            A Tale of Two Presidents

                        Nujoma (Namibia) and Kaunda (Zambia)

                        Figure 1.1

                        Public opinionàdemocracy

Taking Account of Adjustment

                        Nigeria and Mali

                        Structural Adjustment Program

                                    Figure 1.2

                        SAPàPublic opinion

 

Part I Framework

Ch 1 Africa’s Hybrid Reimes

            A Decade of Political Reforms, 1990-2001

                        Table 1.1

            Two Decades of Economic Reform, 1982-2001

                        Table 1.2

            Demand, Supply, and Regime Consolidation

                        Two intellectual traditions: Institutional and cultural

                        Demand and supply of democracy

                                    Equilibrium and consolidation

Ch 2 Studying Public Opinion in Africa

            Competing Theories, Rival Hypotheses

                        Sociological

                        Cultural

                        Institutional

                        Cognitive

                        Performance evaluations

            Toward a Learning Approach

                        Cognitive and awareness, performance evaluations

            The Afrobarometer

            An Appropriate Method?      

 

Part II Popular Attitudes to Reform              

Ch 3 Attitudes to Democracy

            Figure 3.1, Table 3.1, Figure 3.2, Figure 3.3, Figure 3.4, Figure 3.5, Table 3.3,

Wide but shallow

            Figure 3.5, Figure 3.7

Ch 4 Attitudes to a Market Economy

            Table 4.1, Table 4.2, Figure 4.1, Figure 4.2, Table 4.4, Figure 4.4

Ch 5 Economic and Political Behavior

            Table 5.2, Figure 5.1, Table 5.5, Figure 5.3, Figure 5.4

 

Part III Competing Explanations

Ch 6 The Structure of Society

            Table 6.2, Figure 6.3, Table 6.3

Ch 7 Cultural Values

            Figure 7.1, Table 7.3

Ch 8 Awareness of Public Affairs

            Table 8.2

Ch 9 Performance Evaluations

            Table 9.1

Ch 10 Institutional Influences

            Table 10.2

 

Part IV Explaining Reform Constituencies

Ch 11 Modeling Attitudes to Reform

            Table 11.1, Table 11.2

Ch 13 Deciphering Regime Consolidation

            Figure 13.2

           

Critique

Implications