CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Seabo, Batlang Edyson |
|---|---|
| Title | Social Cleavages and Political Parties in Botswana: An account of a pre-dominant party system |
| Summary | While the socio-economic history and political parties of Botswana reveal a social structure that can be analyzed in terms of cleavages, parties are cleavage related only up to a limited extent. The Botswana Democratic Party has more support in the north region than in the south while the Botswana National Front has more support in the south than in the north. The BDP is more popular among the unemployed than the employed people while the BCP is more a party of the employed than the unemployed. The BDP is supported more in the rural areas than in the urban areas while the BNF and the BCP receive more support in urban areas than their support in rural areas. The BPP is the least cleavage related party due to its small regional confinement. Support for the BDP tends to cut across the cleavages and this shows the extent to which the party is embedded in the society which results in a dominant party system. There seems to be no strong evidence in favor of ethno-linguistic cleavage and generational voting due to similar degree of support received by parties from the groups. The findings of this work raise important questions for future research on this area especially the social groups that are likely to share similar social characteristics to constitute a cleavage. |
| Supervisor | Enyedi, Zsolt Sandor |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/seabo_batlang.pdf |
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