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Constrained Opportunism: Ethnic Congruence and Party Switching in Kenya’s Parliament (2002 - 2024)

Fri, April 24, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT (8:00 to 9:30am CDT), TBA

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Why do some Kenyan members of parliament stay loyal when defection pays? I build a new MP-term panel (2002 - 2024) and show that constituency ethnic dominance, interacting with party ethnic concentration, sharply depresses political party switching.

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