Resources

• Afrobarometer: briefing papers SA Survey
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  26 Abr 2012The Afrobarometer survey conducted in South Africa towards the end of 2011 provides interesting insights into the charachteristics of South African citizens and their percpetions ...

• Fear of Crime in South Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  21 Jan 2011"Fear of Crime in South Africa", a Afrobarometer paper examines South African crime data, the justice system, and community tensions about crime, and makes an ...

• Understanding Citizens Attitudes to Democracy in Uganda
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  21 Jan 2011  After nearly 30 years of autocratic rule and civil war, Uganda returned to elective national government in 1996.  But while elections resumed, political parties ...

• Zimbabwe: The Evolving Public Mood
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  05 Jan 2011At the end of 2010, Zimbabwean citizens remained broadly supportive of power sharing as an antidote to political crisis.  But they were increasingly critical of ...

• Green Shoots of Hope for Zimbabwe?
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  20 Set 2010By 2005 Zimbabwe had the fastest shrinking economy in the world and the purchasing power of the average Zimbabweans had fallen to levels last seen ...

• Afrobarometer on Political Regimes, Media and Democratisation
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  25 Mai 2009Read the Afrobarometer report on the following topics: The Evolution of African Political Regimes in the last 10 years; Poverty Reduction, Economic Growth and Democratisation ...

• Afrobarometer - Citizens Concerns About Upcoming Elections
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  10 Mar 2009Discuss this on our blog: http://idasa.wordpress.com/ The campaign for the 2009 South African election promises to be particularly competitive.  Since the formation of the Congress ...

• Lived Poverty in Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  12 Jun 2008By Robert Mattes What is the impact of poverty on development and democracy?  Political scientists have claimed that the prospects of sustaining democratic government in ...

• Social Capital and Political Trust in West Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  25 Abr 2008By Michelle T. Kuenzi Social capital is thought to explain variations in the performance of institutions and policies across different settings, and evidence has been ...

• Voting in Kenya: Ethnicity in Perspective
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  29 Mar 2008By Michael Bratton and Mwangi S. Kimenyi Do Kenyans vote according to ethnic identities or policy interests? Based on results from the Afrobarometer study conducted ...

• “Uncritical Citizenship” in a “Low-Information” Society: Mozambicans in Comparative Perspective
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  31 Dez 2007By Robert Mattes and Carlos Shenga High levels of poverty along with underdeveloped infrastructure greatly inhibit Mozambicans’ ability to participate in politics and assess the ...

• Social Capital and Political Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  24 Dez 2007By Ravi Bhavnani and David Backer This article uses data from the Afrobarometer—an individual-level survey that has been conducted in 18 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa—to ...

• Quality of Elections, Satisfaction with Democracy and Political Trust in Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  10 Dez 2007    By Etannibi Alemika Elections are a means for realising some of the core values of democracy, especially participation of the citizenry, which helps ...

• Perceived Corruption, Public Opinion, and Social Influence in Senegal
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  07 Dez 2007By Carrie  Konold This paper explores public perceptions of corruption in the Senegalese case using public opinion survey data collected by the Afrobarometer in 2005. ...

• Corruption, Institutional Discredit And Exclusion Of The Poor: A Poverty Trap
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  06 Dez 2007By Razafindrakoto, Mireille and Francois Roubaud The vast majority of empirical studies focus mainly on the indirect effects of corruption on poverty using cross-section analyses ...

• Political Sources of Ethnic Identification in Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  04 Dez 2007This paper draws on data from over 33,000 respondents in twenty-two surveys in ten African countries to investigate the political sources of ethnic identification in ...

• More than Huntington's 'Test': Turnovers as Antidotes to Polarization
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  04 Dez 2007By Devra C. Moehler and Staffan I. Lindberg Democratic consolidation depends on common perceptions of institutional legitimacy among citizens aligned with governing and opposition parties. ...

• Young and Old in Sub-Saharan Africa: Who are the Real Democrats?
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  04 Dez 2007By Annie Chikwanha and Eldred Masunungure The assumption of modernization theory has always been that the young would be among those at the forefront of ...

• Ethnicity As Political Cleavage
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  30 Nov 2007    By Nicholas Cheeseman and Rob Ford This paper examines the significance of ethnicity as a political cleavage across African nations over time. While ...

• Democracy Without People: Political Institutions and Citizenship in the New South Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  10 Nov 2007By Robert Mattes South Africa is widely seen as a leading, if not paradigmatic, success story of the Third Wave of Democracy. This success is ...

• Corruption And Institutional Trust In Africa: Implications For Democratic Development
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  04 Nov 2007    By Armah-Attoh, Daniel, E. Gyimah-Boadi and Annie Chikwanha This paper addresses the corruption-trust nexus with survey data and statistical methods. Data are drawn ...

• Poor people and democratic citizenship in Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  24 Fev 2006Paper Author: M. Bratton, produced by: Afrobarometer (2006)   Recent political transitions around the world have cast doubt on arguments about the socioeconomic preconditions for ...

• `South Africa: A DECADE OF DEMOCRACY 2004
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  10 Mar 2005SUMMARY OF RESULTS Compiled by Robert Mattes, Annie Barbara Chikwanha and Alex Magezi The Afrobarometer is an independent, non-partisan research instrument that measures the social, ...

• Afrobarometer Briefing: Lived Poverty in South Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  10 Mar 2005Despite ten years of massive investment in development infrastructure, many South Africans continue to experience daily poverty.  In fact, the proportions of South Africans who ...

• Afrobarometer Briefing: Citizen Experiences With South Africa's Public Service
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  10 Mar 2005While most citizens say it is relatively easy to obtain some public services, such as primary school education for their children or an identity document ...

• Afrobarometer Briefing: Perceptions of Government Corruption in South Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  10 Mar 2005Despite recent controversies over the so-called “Travelgate” scandal in Parliament, South Africans remain far less likely to see corruption in government today than they were ...

• Afrobarometer Briefing: AIDS and Public Opinion in South Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  10 Mar 2005HIV/AIDS is now tied with crime as the public’s second most frequently mentioned priority problem that faces the country.  The proportions of South Africans who ...

• Afrobarometer Briefing: Public Attitudes to Crime and Security in South Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  10 Mar 2005While crime is now seen to occupy far less prominence as a national priority issue than just a few years ago, actual public experience with ...

• No. 12: Afrobarometer Briefing - AIDS
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  21 Abr 2004Afrobarometer - AIDS April 04 "Across fifteen countries surveyed in Round 2 of the Afrobarometer, our data indicate that large proportions of people (especially in ...

• No. 9: Afrobarometer Briefing - Electoral Alternation of Power
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  21 Abr 2004Almost fifteen years have passed since waves of democratization began to crash on African shores. Transitions to multiparty rule were often greeted with mass public ...

• No. 11: Afrobarometer Briefing- Lived Poverty
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  21 Abr 2004In this paper, we examine data that describe Africans’ everyday experiences with poverty, their sense of national progress, and their views of the future. The ...

• No. 10: Afrobarometer Briefing - Unemployment
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  21 Abr 2004Afrobarometer - Unemployment April 04 "This paper addresses the problem that Africans tell us is uppermost in their minds: unemployment. We analyze self-reported unemployment in ...

• No. 6: Afrobarometer Briefing- Political Party Support in SA - Trends since 1994
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  13 Dez 2003The full document is available in PDF • The African National Congress continues to be the dominant political party in South Africa: 42 percent of a ...

• No. 31: Afrobarometer - Learning About Democracy in Africa
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  21 Out 2003"Conventional views of African politics imply that Africans arrive at political opinions largely on the basis of their positions in the social structure or enduring ...

• No. 28: Afrobarometer - Growth of Democracy in Ghana
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  21 Abr 2003"To help assess political and economic conditions in Ghana, the extent to which democracy and market reforms are taking root, and to ascertain what the ...

• No. 29: Afrobarometer - DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  21 Abr 2003DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM: A VIRTUOUS CIRCLE? "The paper is based on Amartya Sen's seminal work Development as Freedom. Sen describes five requirements that should ideally ...

• Afrobarometer Report - Lived Poverty In South Africa - Report - February 2003
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  21 Fev 2003February 2003 Afrobarometer Report One approach to poverty measurement, exemplified by the World Bank, measures poverty through national accounts (e.g. GNP per capita) or household ...

• No. 24: Afrobarometer Working Paper - Democratic Governance in SA Dec 2002
  [Relatórios Científicos]

  21 Dez 2002Eight years into South Africa's experiment with inclusive democracy, we look to the views of ordinary citizens -the ultimate consumers of what democratic governments supply- ...