Party proliferation and political contestation in Africa: Senegal in comparative perspective
研究了1990年代以来多个撒哈拉以南非洲国家政党数量激增的现象，聚焦塞内加尔案例，探讨为何反对派未能形成更统一的阵线，对理解非洲政党竞争格局有参考价值。
Since the turn towards multiparty elections in the 1990s, several sub-Saharan African countries have seen their number of political parties dramatically increase. Many of these parties operate on a small geographical scale, attract only minimal shares of the electorate, and come and go with every election. Given these parties almost negligible impact on voting behaviour, most analysts choose to study only the larger parties in a country, or at least those parties represented in parliament. Catherine Lena Kelly, however, engages extensively with the question of party proliferation, convincingly arguing that rather than ignoring the plethora of small parties with little electoral impact, Africanists must ask themselves why a more united opposition front does not emerge. This question is particularly acute for the case of Senegal where multiparty elections were already introduced in the late 1970s—albeit on a highly unequal playing field—but where the number of parties has increased from 3...