Africa: Cross-Pressured Voters in Africa: Patterns of Loyalty, Defection, and Abstention
When performance evaluations conflict with partisan leanings, which way do voters turn? In many electoral contexts, voters are increasingly cross-pressured between long-standing identity attachments and evaluations of economic performance. While cross-pressured voters have been shown to behave differently in advanced democracies, far less is known about how they navigate electoral choice in African contexts. We…