Publications

This report looks at evidence from a 2002 Afrobarometer survey carried out in 10 provinces in Mozambique. It organizes survey results to look at key issues, including the level of citizen empowerment ...chevron_right

This publication provides survey results measuring awareness and evaluation of international organizations in Africa. The results reveal that interviewees are not keenly aware of international organ...chevron_right

This briefing paper details South Africans' assessment of their country's most pressing problems. They include job creation/unemployment, crime, poverty, HIV/AIDS and housing. The paper notes that man...chevron_right

This publication reports that support for all parties in South Africa has declined since 2000 in terms of respondents' expressions of their voting intentions. This is happening despite the continued d...chevron_right

This publication provides survey results measuring attitudes toward democracy, free speech and the media in Africa. The results show that Africans associate democracy with freedom, that they still hav...chevron_right

This report assesses political and economic conditions in Ghana. The authors use public opinion surveys of September 2002 to measure the extent to which democracy and market reforms are taking root an...chevron_right

This report gives empirical confirmation of Amartya Sen’s concept of development as expansion of freedoms by demonstrating that people who are well off are more likely to support democracy than those ...chevron_right

This report presents the findings of a second round of surveys conducted in Uganda in 2002. It places the results in a comparative perspective with respect to the public’s state of mind two years prev...chevron_right

This report examines the relationship of historical, economic, and demographic factors on Cape Verdean evaluations of democracy and market reforms. It draws on the Afrobarometer survey administered in...chevron_right

This report explores the effect of ethnic identity on voting choices and party support in in developing countries, characterized by low levels of education and minimal access to the news media. It ana...chevron_right

This report explores the role that poverty can play in undermining democracy. It uses data from public opinion surveys conducted in Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and South Afric...chevron_right

This report focuses on the views of South African citizens for insight into the direction of democracy in their country. The authors use public opinion measures to assess democratic governance in Sout...chevron_right

This briefing paper addresses how poverty shapes the prospects for consolidating democratic governance in South Africa. It employs a living poverty index and finds no evidence at the individual level ...chevron_right

This report presents results from a nationally representative survey assessing the views of the Mozambique's citizens toward democracy. The report begins with some key findings from the survey conduct...chevron_right

This briefing paper investigates how religious orientations, especially attachments to Islam, affect public support for democracy in sub-Saharan Africa. It finds that populations in four African count...chevron_right