Gero Erdmann

GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies

Neuer Jungfernstieg 21

Hamburg, DE D-20354

Germany

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Scholarly Papers (8)

1.

Neopatrimonialism Revisited: Beyond a Catch-All Concept

GIGA Working Paper No 16
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2012
Gero Erdmann and Ulf Engel
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies and University of Leipzig - Institute of African Studies
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Neopatrimonialism, patrimonial and legal-rational bureaucratic domination, hybrid regimes, rent seeking

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The Cleavage Model, Ethnicity and Voter Alignment in Africa: Conceptual and Methodological Problems Revisited

GIGA Working Paper No. 63
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2013
Gero Erdmann
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
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Africa, social cleavages, cleavage model, ethnicity, political parties, party systems

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Ethnicity, Voter Alignment and Political Party Affiliation - An African Case: Zambia

GIGA Working Paper No. 45
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 05 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2012
Gero Erdmann
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
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Social cleavages, ethnicity, voting behaviour, political party identification, political party affiliation, Zambia

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Can Historical Institutionalism be Applied to Political Regime Development in Africa?

GIGA Working Paper No 166
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 23 May 2011 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2012
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Historical institutionalism, Africa, critical junctures, path dependency, political regimes

Transition from Democracy - Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy

GIGA Working Paper No. 161
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 Apr 2011
Gero Erdmann
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
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authoritarian regimes, breakdown of democracy, hybrid regimes, quality of democracy, transition from democracy

Transition from Democracy - Loss of Quality, Hybridisation and Breakdown of Democracy

GIGA Working Paper No. 161
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 23 Aug 2012
Gero Erdmann
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
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authoritarian regimes, breakdown of democracy, hybrid regimes, quality of democracy, transition from democracy

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Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa

GIGA Working Paper No. 40
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 03 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2012
Gero Erdmann and Matthias Basedau
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies and German Overseas Institute (DUI)
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Africa, South of Sahara, party systems, conceptual analysis, democratisation, electoral system, social cleavage, ethnicity

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Lessons to Be Learned: Political Party Research and Political Party Assistance

GIGA Working Paper No. 149
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Nov 2010 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2012
Gero Erdmann
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
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Democratization, Democracy Promotion, Political Party Assistance, Political Party Research

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Origins and Outcomes of Electoral Institutions in African Hybrid Regimes: A Comparative Perspective

GIGA Working Paper No 197, June 2012
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Sep 2012
German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
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hybrid regimes, democratization, historical institutionalism, electoral institutions, Africa