Episode 19: This month, we talk to Karen E. Ferree, Visiting Scholar at GLD Gothenburg from the University of California and part of GLD's Steering Committee. We talk about her latest research on how ethnic divisions shape voting behavior. Karen argues for a reorientation of how we think about ethnic voting, away from an exclusive focus on voters to one that links voter behavior to the supply side of candidates. Karen’s research has recently been published in two GLD working papers called "Choice and Choice Set in African Elections" and "Mixed Records, Cognitive Complexity, and Ethnic Voting in African Elections". Karen studies democratization in Africa. Her work sits at the intersection of institutional and behavioral approaches to politics, with a particular focus on how ethnic and racial divisions and formal and informal institutions shape voting behavior and election outcomes in emerging democracies. She has written about South African politics in her book, Framing the Race in South Africa: the Political Origins of Racial Census Elections (Cambridge University Press, 2011). She has also written about electoral institutions, electoral integrity, and issues related to survey design in Africa.
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