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Title:Nominations and Party Development in Ethiopia: The Opposition and the 2005 Parliamentary Election
Author:Ishiyama, JohnISNI
Year:2007
Periodical:African and Asian Studies
Volume:6
Issue:1-2
Pages:81-105
Language:English
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:opposition parties
elections
2005
Politics and Government
External link:https://doi.org/10.1163/156921007X180596
Abstract:To what extent do parties in Africa behave in ways similar to parties in new democracies elsewhere in the world? Although a complete answer to this question is far beyond its intended scope, this article examines one important aspect of party behaviour in one sub-Saharan country: the way in which the two major opposition parties in Ethiopia nominated candidates for the 2005 parliamentary elections. It examines the nomination behaviour of the main opposition parties using a binary logistic regression technique. The article finds that the primary Ethiopian opposition parties, the CUD (the Coalition for Unity and Democracy) and UEDF (the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces) were quite different in their nomination behaviour, and that the CUD (more than the UEDF) exhibited nomination patterns similar to party nomination behaviour in other new democracies. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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