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To ban or not ban political parties:correlates of turmoil and the problem of "Deutschian Conflict" in black Africa

Using a 32-nation sample from Black Africa, a test is made of Deutsch's hypothesis that primordial intergroup conflict is caused by social mobilization when social assimilation lags. A two-stage regression analysis is used to test the hypothesis. Both in terms of bivariate and multivariate regr...

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Main Author: Zakaria Haji Ahmad,
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Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 1979
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spelling my-ukm.journal.40972012-04-04T01:53:11Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/4097/ To ban or not ban political parties:correlates of turmoil and the problem of "Deutschian Conflict" in black Africa Zakaria Haji Ahmad, Using a 32-nation sample from Black Africa, a test is made of Deutsch's hypothesis that primordial intergroup conflict is caused by social mobilization when social assimilation lags. A two-stage regression analysis is used to test the hypothesis. Both in terms of bivariate and multivariate regression analysis, it was discovered that indicators of low social assimilation are insignificant to explain primordial inter-group conflict; instead, it was found that the banning of political parties is statistically significant to the correlation. Simply therefore, conflict in SubSahara Africa is really political and bears little relationship to questions of ethnicity and primordialism. However, given the preliminary nature of the data and problems of data accuracy, the results must be regarded as only tentative. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 1979 Article PeerReviewed Zakaria Haji Ahmad, (1979) To ban or not ban political parties:correlates of turmoil and the problem of "Deutschian Conflict" in black Africa. AKADEMIKA, 14 . pp. 69-82. ISSN 0126-5008 http://pkukmweb.ukm.my/penerbit/jdem14-6.htm
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description Using a 32-nation sample from Black Africa, a test is made of Deutsch's hypothesis that primordial intergroup conflict is caused by social mobilization when social assimilation lags. A two-stage regression analysis is used to test the hypothesis. Both in terms of bivariate and multivariate regression analysis, it was discovered that indicators of low social assimilation are insignificant to explain primordial inter-group conflict; instead, it was found that the banning of political parties is statistically significant to the correlation. Simply therefore, conflict in SubSahara Africa is really political and bears little relationship to questions of ethnicity and primordialism. However, given the preliminary nature of the data and problems of data accuracy, the results must be regarded as only tentative.
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To ban or not ban political parties:correlates of turmoil and the problem of "Deutschian Conflict" in black Africa
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title To ban or not ban political parties:correlates of turmoil and the problem of "Deutschian Conflict" in black Africa
title_short To ban or not ban political parties:correlates of turmoil and the problem of "Deutschian Conflict" in black Africa
title_full To ban or not ban political parties:correlates of turmoil and the problem of "Deutschian Conflict" in black Africa
title_fullStr To ban or not ban political parties:correlates of turmoil and the problem of "Deutschian Conflict" in black Africa
title_full_unstemmed To ban or not ban political parties:correlates of turmoil and the problem of "Deutschian Conflict" in black Africa
title_sort to ban or not ban political parties:correlates of turmoil and the problem of "deutschian conflict" in black africa
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