Add to ORKGThis paper investigates whether the exam success rate in Africa increases significantly in the months prior to the occurrence of the presidential elections. It hypothesizes that the incumbent is tempted to increase the exam success rate to retain a form of social cohesion and to 'buy' votes. A sample of 15 francophone African countries observed from 1990 to 2009 yields three findings. First, post-exam presidential elections significantly increase the exam success rate by six percentage points. Second, the manipulation of the exam success rate is positively correlated with the re-election of the incumbent. Third, these results do not hold when elections occur before the exam dates or when the incumbent or a member of his/her party do not run...
This introduction interrogates the popular meaning attached to elections in a liberal democracy, whe...
Despite pre-election fears, the victory of the opposition NPP over the ruling NDC in Ghana’s Decembe...
Does having more regular elections improve democratic performance in Africa? And have elections tra...
This paper investigates whether the exam success rate in Africa increases significantly in the month...
Drawing on Tsubura’s studies (2019a; 2019b) that analyse how presidential candidates have been selec...
All five francophone Africa presidential elections in Guinea, Côte d ’Ivoire, Togo (2020), Chad and ...
Over 90 per cent of the world’s states currently select their national leaders through multiparty el...
Any analysis of elections in Africa over recent periods has to be placed within the wider debate abo...
Violence and conflicts have characterised electoral processes in a number of African countries since...
In dominant party states in sub-Saharan Africa where presidential succession occurs regularly, facti...
A large literature has described the years after independence from colonial rule as a period of ‘dep...
Africa experienced a wave of democratization over the past 20 years and this increase in democracy, ...
International election monitoring is a phenomenon that began to spread rapidly in the 1990s and has ...
On 20 May 2014, Malawi arranged tripartite elections for president, parliament and local councils. T...
A large volume of literature shows that corruption affects economic growth through the lowering of t...
This introduction interrogates the popular meaning attached to elections in a liberal democracy, whe...
Despite pre-election fears, the victory of the opposition NPP over the ruling NDC in Ghana’s Decembe...
Does having more regular elections improve democratic performance in Africa? And have elections tra...
This paper investigates whether the exam success rate in Africa increases significantly in the month...
Drawing on Tsubura’s studies (2019a; 2019b) that analyse how presidential candidates have been selec...
All five francophone Africa presidential elections in Guinea, Côte d ’Ivoire, Togo (2020), Chad and ...
Over 90 per cent of the world’s states currently select their national leaders through multiparty el...
Any analysis of elections in Africa over recent periods has to be placed within the wider debate abo...
Violence and conflicts have characterised electoral processes in a number of African countries since...
In dominant party states in sub-Saharan Africa where presidential succession occurs regularly, facti...
A large literature has described the years after independence from colonial rule as a period of ‘dep...
Africa experienced a wave of democratization over the past 20 years and this increase in democracy, ...
International election monitoring is a phenomenon that began to spread rapidly in the 1990s and has ...
On 20 May 2014, Malawi arranged tripartite elections for president, parliament and local councils. T...
A large volume of literature shows that corruption affects economic growth through the lowering of t...
This introduction interrogates the popular meaning attached to elections in a liberal democracy, whe...
Despite pre-election fears, the victory of the opposition NPP over the ruling NDC in Ghana’s Decembe...
Does having more regular elections improve democratic performance in Africa? And have elections tra...