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    Social Assistance, Electoral Competition, and Political Branding in Malawi

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    2019
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    Hamer, Sam
    Seekings, Jeremy
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    The proliferation of social assistance programmes across Africa has coincided with redemocratization, i.e. the return of multi-party systems with regular, competitive elections in place of one-party states and military regimes. Elections replaced coups as the primary mechanism for leadership change. Studiesof other areas of public policy, including health and education, suggest that democracy sometimes prompts public policy reforms (e.g. Harding and Stasavage 2013; Carbone and Pellegata 2017) and has almost always prevented death through famine (Devereux and Tiba 2007). To date, however, there has been little analysis of whether and how democratization matters for social assistance in Africa, or of whether and how social assistance informs electoral and partisan politics.
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    https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16343
    Citation
    Sam Hamer and Jeremy Seekings, Social Assistance, Electoral Competition, and Political Branding in Malawi In: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa. Edited by: Sam Hickey, Tom Lavers, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa, and Jeremy Seekings, Oxford University Press (2020). DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198850342.003.0009
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    10.1093/oso/9780198850342.003.0009
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    https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198850342.pdf
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