Code
01W00312
Duration
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Other economics and business
- Citizenship, immigration and political inequality
- International and comparative politics
- Multilevel governance
- National politics
- Political behaviour
- Political organisations and institutions
- Political theory and methodology
- Public administration
- Other political science
Keywords
economy
partisanship
president
voting
ethnicity
Tanzania
Project description
This study is a multivariate empirical assessment of the influences of ethnicity partisanship and economic evaluations on electoral choiches in Tanzania. It answers the questions: To what extent does ethnicity form the base of support of presidential candidates? To what extent does partisan attachment inform choice of a presidential candidate? And, how significant economic performance is in informing presidential choiches?