SMP in Africa: Examining Duverger’s Law, Electoral Bias, and Party Systems

• In Event: Parties, Party Systems, and Representation

Brief Overview

Having argued in previous research that single-member plurality (SMP) electoral systems favor the two-party system because of electoral bias reinforcing itself, we expand our analysis to African SMP countries, including Liberia, Kenya, and Nigeria.

Authors

• Bernard D Tamas, Valdosta State University

• Michael Christopher Marshall, Prairie View A&M University- PVAMU